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Video | The Joseph Hassett Annual Lecture Series

Annual lecture series commemorates the work of WB Yeats
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Post Primary
Third Level
Lifelong Learning & Communities
Resource Type
Video
Audience
Post Primary
Third Level
Lifelong Learning & Communities
Resource Type
Video
Yeats sitting in armchair with his dog
Online
Introduction Text
The Joseph Hassett Annual Lecture, generously supported by Joseph Hassett, a lawyer, literary scholar and philanthropist, is an annual event commemorating the work of WB Yeats.

The lecture continues to be inspired by the National Library of Ireland’s long-running exhibition, “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats,” which features the world’s largest collection of Yeats material, including his Nobel Prize medal.

For those interested in learning more, we invite you to watch the playlist below, and to visit our ongoing exhibition Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats.

Talk and Dialogue in Yeats’ Poetry | Professor Nicholas Grene (2025)

Yeats and the Objects of Home | Associate Professor Belinda McKeon (2024)

"Ireland's Interpreter" and "Europe's Welcome": W.B. Yeats and the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923 | Professor Margaret Kelleher (2023)

WB Yeats: A Portrait of the Poet as a Joyce Critic | Professor John McCourt (2022)

Dr Joseph Hassett & Professor Margaret Kelleher in Conversation (2021)