August 2016

Mr Yeats’ Visit to Killala will take place Saturday 27 August at 8pm in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Killala.

This upcoming Heritage Week event follows a wildly successful first event in 2015. Killala will celebrate its connection to the Nobel Laureate’s as part of National Heritage Week 2016. Given the significance of 2016, Mr Yeats Visit to Killala will this year mark Yeats’ involvement in the Gaelic Revival and commemorate the events of Easter 1916. 

Members of the Killala community, local dignitaries, personalities and a selection of invited guests will celebrate Yeats through their chosen readings, poetry, music and song. Students of the Lawlor School of Music will perform on the night and commemorate their peers of 100 years ago, the fallen children of 1916. 

Admission is free with donations to this year’s chosen charity Western Care.