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Yeats Society Sligo
Site http://www.yeats-sligo.com
The Yeats Society was founded in Sligo in 1958 in order to commemorate and honour the memory of W.B. Yeats, and to promote appreciation of his poetry and other writings, and an awareness of the other members of this talented family. The Society operates from the Yeats Memorial Building in the very centre of Sligo, overlooking the River Garavogue. The building operates as the administrative centre of the Society and houses the Yeats Exhibition Centre of the Society, The Sligo Art Gallery, and the Yeats River Café. The Library provides reading and learning space for students who wish to consult its unique collection of books, and to listen to and view the DVD collection of lectures given at the Years Summer Schools over more than forty years. The Society seeks to contribute to the many cultural activities in Sligo, and gladly provides space for book launches, poetry readings, lectures and public meetings.
The Yeats Society
Site http://www.yeatssociety.org
The W.B. Yeats Society of N.Y. was founded on the Irish Nobel Laureate's 125th birthday, June 13, 1990, and quickly became one of the largest, most active voluntary organizations dedicated to one literary figure. International activities include a poetry competition and the M. L. Rosenthal award for contributions to Yeats studies that are open to people from any part of the world. People from many parts of North America attend its "Taste of the Yeats Summer School in Ireland" every April in New York, its "Poet Pass By!" (an evening of staged readings and songs described as a "literary vaudeville") produced every June in New York City, and such special events as the John Butler Yeats Weekend held September 2001 it helped produce in the upstate New York town where the poet's father is buried. (See photos). Numerous lectures, book launches and other weekday evening events are held throughout the year. Many are held at the National Arts Club in New York, where the society is headquartered and where the poet and his father spoke or visited on many occasions. The society has members throughout the U.S., and has given guidance to groups organizing Yeats societies in other parts of the country.
The Golden Dawn Research Center
Site http://www.golden-dawn.org
The true and historic Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1887, is an extension of the ancient Mysteries of Light. Golden Dawn teachings have remained and influenced thousands who seek a deeper understanding of the Mysteries. Today, the teachings, practices and initiations of the historical Golden Dawn continue. This site is a resource for serious students who desire a deeper understanding of the Classical Golden Dawn's teachings and practices. Several Golden Dawn styles, Orders and temples are listed to aid the traveler on the pathway of light...
William Butler Yeats - Biography and Works
Site http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Yeats's Vision: W.B. Yeats and 'A Vision'
Site http://www.yeatsvision.com
This web site is dedicated to the work of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), specifically to the strange, esoteric system which he and his wife, George, created, and which he expounded in A Vision. It is intended primarily for students of this work, and also for those who are interested in the intellectual and symbolic background to his later poetry and prose. For those who are unfamiliar with Yeats or with A Vision, the Overview offers a brief introductory survey.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925
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