Leading Irish poets are in Sligo this weekend to mark the centenary of WB Yeats winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
Members of the public will also gather to read 100 of Yeats poems.
The event - called 'My Numberless Dreams…My Passionate Rhyme. PoetryIreland Then and Now' - includes readings from Chair of Irish Poetry Paul Muldoon.
"It's a particular joy to be part of the festivities here in the poet's "soulscape". From first to last, Sligo was not merely the setting of some of Yeats' great poems but would become a character in those poems"
There will be readings, talks and panel discussions this weekend. Contemporary poets and writers in attendance include Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Theo Dorgan, Jessica Traynor, Victoria Kennefick, John McAuliffe and Stephen Sexton
Yeats' granddaughter, Caitríona Yeats, will host a public reading of 100 of Yeats' poems. There will also be a tribute to Seamus Heaney, the last Irish person to win the Nobel Prize, on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Musicians Steve Wickham and Frank Gallagher will play together and Sligo band No Crows will also perform.
This weekend in Sligo, schoolchildren are learning about the significance of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with lectures and workshops on the history of the prize and why the Yeats Nobel Prize remains important 100 years on.
Susan O’Keeffe, Director of Yeats Society Sligo, said: "The tradition of poetry in Ireland is a long and strong one. Poets have always spoken the truths others avoid or ignore and their restorative and creative powers need always to be recognised and nourished.
"In this Centenary year of WB Yeats Nobel Prize, we are delighted to host an event, with outstanding poets, which places poetry front and centre; the poetry of the past, of the now and on into the next hundred years."
The event is part of a wider programme, designed by Yeats Society Sligo, in partnership with other organisations and institutions to mark the Centenary of the award.
Yeats Society Sligo has curated the national programme of events, funded by the Official Decade of Centenaries.
Central to commemorative events are the Abbey Theatre, which Yeats co-founded with Lady Gregory in 1904, Seanad Éireann, in which he served as a senator from the foundation of the Free State in 1922, and the National Library of Ireland where he loved to visit.
Primary schools and local libraries nationwide have also played key roles in the commemorations
