Itinerary
Please note that we are still in the process of finalizing some of the details of our program, including the exact time for our first meeting at Dublin airport. Be sure to check the itinerary about a week before departure, at which time all details will be finalized.
Mon July 17
9:30 Early Flight meeting: Please meet at the Oak Bar / Cafe in Terminal 2.
12:00 Late Flight meeting: Please meet at the Oak Bar / Cafe in Terminal 2
Check-in at the Generator Hostel
Nap – Clean up.
1:00 Orientation to the City (walking): Christ Church, St. Patrick’s, Chester Beatty, Temple Bar
3:00 Trinity College Tour (Depart from the Global Room) and tour of Book of Kells
5:00 Literary Pub Crawl (O’Neill’s, Davy Byrne’s, Muligan’s)
Dinner on Own
Tues July 18
10:00 Walking Tour of South Dublin (Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Yeats Exhibit, Archeology Museum)
3:30 Optional afternoon activities: St. Michan’s Church, Chester Beatty, Guinness Storehouse
Dinner on Own
7:00 Irish Dance Party at the Generator
Wed July 19
10:00 Glasnevin Cemetery Tour
1:00 Walking Tour of North Dublin (Four Courts, Famine Memorial, O’Connell St., Hugh Lane Gallery)
3:30 Day-trip to Howth
8:00 Group dinner in Howth at The Bloody Stream
Thur July 20
10:00 Private Bus to Strokestown (Meet outside Generator)
12:30 Tour of Strokestown Estate and Famine Museum
3:30 Private Bus to Sligo
5:00 Opening of the Summer School
7:00 Reception and Banquet Sponsored by the Yeats Society
Fri July 21
9:30 Geraldine Higgins (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): “Things Fall Apart”
11:15 Ronan McDonald (University of New South Wales, Australia): “Nationalism versus Cosmopolitanism”
TBA Yeats Summer School Boat Trip to Innisfree
8:00 Colette Bryce Poetry Reading
Sat July 22
TBA Yeats Summer School Bus Trip to Thoor Ballylee and Coole Park
Sun July 23
TBA Yeats Summer School Bus Trip to Glencar and Ben Bulben
5:00 Evensong: Drumcliff Church
7:30 Group Dinner at Coach Lane
Mon July 24
9:30 Nicholas Greene (Trinity College, Dublin): “Knocking Yeats: Five Types of Begrudgery”
11:15 Rosie Lavan (Trinity College, Dublin): “Revival Legacies: Yeats and the Dolmen Press”
2:30 Afternoon Seminars
8:00 Colm Toibin Fiction Reading
Tue July 25
9:30 Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford): “Yeats and the Subject of Rhythm”
11:15 Rob Doggett (SUNY Geneseo): “Yeats, Sligo, and the Tourist Mode”
1:15 Joan McBreen Poetry Reading
2:30 Afternoon Seminars
8:00 Joan McBreen Book Launch
Wed July 26
9:30 Claire Connolly (University College, Cork): “Yeats and the Novel”
11:15 Joep Leerson (University of Amsterdam): “Yeats and the Hunger Strike”
1:15 Curlew Theatre on the Rising
2:30 Afternoon Seminars
6:00 Group Dinner at Bistro Bianconi
8:00 Seisun at the Glasshouse
Thur July 27
9:30 Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin): “Yeats as Love Poet”
11:15 Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia): “Jack Yeats and the West of Ireland”
1:15 Open Mic (Student Poetry Readings)
2:30 Afternoon Seminars
5:00 Geneseo Group Trip to Knocknerea
8:00 Christine Tobin Concert
Fri July 28
9:30 Joseph Hassett (Attorney, Washington D.C.): “Why Robert Graves Hosted a Lunch ‘in honour of demise of Yeats’”
11:15 Jill Wharton (University of Notre Dame): “Yeats and Plantation Modernism”
2:30 Seminars
8:00 Blue Raincoat Play
Sat July 29
10:30 Private Bus to Connemara
2:00 Kylemore Abbey Tour
4:30 Private Bus to Letterfrack, Cloverfox Hostel
Sun July 30
Hiking in Connemara
Visit Clifden
Optional Day Trip to Galway
Depart 8:45 or 11:05
Return 16:00 (4 pm) or 17:30 (5:30 pm)
7:30 Group Dinner at Cloverfox Hostel
Mon July 31
Hiking in Connemara
Visit Clifden
Curlew Theatre Play
Tue Aug 1
TBA Private Bus to Dublin
Group Dinner in Dublin
Wed Aug 2
Depart from Dublin