‘Why don’t you come to the Winter School?” asked Martin Enright, one of the keenest supporters of our Maud Gonne statue project last year. 

I’ve just booked.

It’s the 30th year of the school, hosted by the Sligo Park Hotel who say that, “The Yeats Winter School offers an opportunity for reading, exploring and thinking about Yeats’s poetry, plays and prose, and for learning more about him and the other creative members of his family, amidst the landscape which inspired them.” 

If you fancy joining me there, it runs across January 24th-26th, 2025.

A three-day programme of events celebrating the life and work of poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats, promising a weekend of relaxation, lectures, music and a tour of Yeats Country.

See the brochure below for the full program:

Will I see you there?