Upcoming Programs
Monday, December 16, 6 p.m., Holiday Party-Dinner, Gossip Irish Bar & Restaurant, 733 Ninth Avenue (between 49th and 50th Streets), 2nd Floor Event Room. Program includes social and cash bar (light bites) with music by Gabriel Donohue performing his Yeats arrangements from 6 p.m., dinner from 7:30.
To reserve, send a check to WB Society of NY c/o National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003. Checks must arrive by December 14. Both events $5 higher at the door. Options:
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$60 for social, cash bar and dinner (buffet with choice of shepherd's pie, salmon, or vegetarian pasta.
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$20 for cash bar and social only.
2025 Yeats Summer School, July 23-August 1 in Ireland
Wednesday, July 23-Friday, August 1 66th Yeats International Summer School in Ireland. The School is the longest-running literary summer school in the world and one of the longest established events in Ireland, at more than half a century old. It offers morning lectures, week-long seminars and a variety of talks, walks, poetry readings, Irish dancing and an open mic. Visit Yeats Society, Sligo website, YeatsSociety.com for rates for full 10-day and shorter registrations, and for information on scholarships. Or write Yeats Society, Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland or info@yeatssociety.com, telephone 011-353-7191-42693.
Friday-Sunday, January 24-26 Yeats Winter Weekend, Sligo, Ireland. Typically, a weekend of lectures, readings, tours of Yeats Country and relaxation at the Sligo Park Hotel. More information, as it becomes available, at SligoPark.com and YeatsSociety.com.
Date to be announced March. Staged reading of Yeats’s “At the Hawk’s Well” At the Amateur Comedy Club, 150 East 36 Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues.
Date to be announced Early April. Readings marking Poetry Month and presentation of the Yeats Poetry Prize by competition judge January Gill O'Neil. At Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17 Street at Park Avenue South. Free. See submission information o Home Page and in listing below.
Saturday, April 26, 10a.m.-5p.m. ‘A Taste of the Yeats Summer. School’ All-day program evoking spirit of the school in Ireland (see below). Includes a social and summer school reunion. Presentations will include “Quotable Yeats–the Foam and the Deep.” Joseph Hassett (Yeats and the Muses, 2010) talks about the many Yeats lines that not only capture a thought suitable for a particular life occasion, but also opens the door to deeper understanding of his poetry. At NYU Glucksman Ireland House, One Washington Mews (Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and 8th Street). Full program and fees to be announced.
Date to be announced “Two Noble New Yorkers.” An illustrated talk about W.B. Yeats’s father, the portrait painter John Butler Yeats, who came to NYC in 1907 and died here in 1922, and the lawyer John Quinn, who was a patron to WBY, caretaker to JBY, and a patron to and collector of numerous well-known painters and writers in Europe. They were at the heart of New York’s cultural life, such as the famous Armory Show” of 1913 and friends with such people as John Sloan, Robert Henri, Jack London, and Isadora Duncan. At the National Arts Club. Free.
More programs to be announced later.
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Canadian folksinger-songwriter Loreena McKennitt (right) visited the National Arts Club October 19 to hear about Yeats connections (she's a fan) to NAC and NYC from Yeats Society president Andrew McGowan (left). Here they stand with a sculpture by NAC member Paul Manship, who was one of the artists who submitted designs for the new Irish Republic's coinage, to be judged by a committee headed by Senator Yeats. That night at her concert at Town Hall, she mentioned the visit, as an introduction to her version of Yeats's "The Stolen Child."
Yeats Poem Plaque in New York City on Library Way
In the late ’90s, the Grand Central Partnership transformed East 41st Street between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue into a dramatic promenade to the New York Public Library’s majestic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the length of which is regularly studded with bronze sidewalk plaques featuring quotes from literature and poetry and the whole of which is now known as “Library Way.”