Yeats Day 2015: June 11-14
Centred in Sligo, Galway and Dublin, but with many more events taking place around the country and internationally, Yeats Day 2015 offers a wealth of events and experiences to honour WB Yeats and celebrate his influence.
See a full list of events below. Follow #Yeats2015 for more updates.
Featured Events

Yeats Day at Dalkey Book Festival
Dalkey Book Festival, described by Salman Rushdie as “the best little festival in the world”, takes place every year in June. It will feature a series of special events for Yeats Day on 12-13 June.

Yeats2015 Architecture Competition - Sligo
Art, architecture and landscape combine in a prestigious international competition to celebrate Yeats' Lake Isle of Inisfree

Portaits and Impressions of W.B. Yeats Exhibition Opening
Exhibition Opening by Professor Margaret Mills Harper.
2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats. In 2014, Hamilton Gallery approached…

Yeats Birthday Celebrations at Coole
The month of June at Coole will include many events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats who spent twenty summers here…

The Poet Laureate and National Poets Event - Sligo
One of the Yeats Day highlights, this event features Chair of Irish Poetry, Paula Meehan; Poet Laureate of England, Carol Ann Duffy; the National Poet…

Crazy Jane Exhibition at Clifden Arts Festival
Clifden Arts Festival proudly presents a world premier, the complete, 53 works in all, of Crazy Jane, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Pádraic…
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New Yeats2015 Video Showcases Stunning Sligo
Today we launch a new video to mark the end of the hugely successful Yeats2015 celebrations.
Be prepared to be enchanted as WB Yeats recites ‘The…

The Sligo pub which hosted a daily Yeats reading for a year
Probably the most popular participant at Hargadons pub was Joanna Lumley
Via The Irish Times More HERE
Courtesy The Irish Times

Arabic translation of 'Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'
Qatar University students translate “Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
More HERE

Yeats2015: 15 poets read their favourite WB Yeats poems
Lagan Press have coupled with Poetry NI to ask fifteen poets to read their favourite WB Yeats, to help mark the 150 anniversary year of the poet's birth.
As…

Gaelscoil Riabhach animation inspired by WB Yeats 'He wishes for the cloths of Heaven'
A stop-motion animation made by 4th and 5th class students of Gaelscoil Riabhach, Loughrea, Co. Galway, inspired by "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven".…

Toronto Bengalis Celebrate Tagore-Yeats Friendship
On the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of the renowned Nobel Laureate poet William Butler Yeats, Bangladeshi Novels (an website of Bangladeshi novels)…