Livestream Panel Discussion | Yeats’ Nobel: Then & Now

Join the NLI for a live streamed panel discussion on WB Yeats' enduring influence on the centenary of his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Join Professor Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama UCD, for a discussion with Yeats scholar and author Joseph Hassett and Poet and Dramatist Paula Meehan about the award of the prize and the continuing echo of Yeats’s poetry into daily life.

With musical interludes.

This event is organised as part of the programme to mark the Centenary of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to WB Yeats in 1923. The programme is funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and organised in partnership with the Yeats Society Sligo.