Yeats Summer School Stipend

Note: UZH Students who wish to learn more about study abroad in general can visit the Study Abroad section of the UZH English Department website.

: Wiliam Butler Yeats (1865-1939): photograph from 1923 & sculpture in Sligo

Yeats Society Sligo

The Yeats Society in Sligo, Ireland, organises the Yeats International Summer School every year - an opportunity to learn about the famous Nobel-prize winning poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), comprising cultural events and excursions in the beautiful county Sligo.

For more information please visit the Yeats Society website.

: Ben Bulben, county Sligo

Stipend and Travel Bursary

We are happy to announce that the Yeats Society Sligo offers a place to one student from Switzerland every year (tuition fee of €650.- waived).

To cover expenses for travel and accommodation, the Max Geilinger Stiftung offers a travel bursary of CHF 650.- and the Irish Embassy a bursary for accommodation of CHF 250.-.

The successful candidate will also receive an invitation to the Saint Patrick's Day Reception of the Irish Embassy in Berne.

: The Three Sponsors; The Three Sponsors

Past Recipients

The Yeats Summer School Stipend was established in 2018, with the first stipend awarded in 2019. The following is a list of all past recipients:

2020: Sorcha Walsh, Université de Lausanne (stipend postponed to 2021, as the Yeats Summer School was canceled due to COVID-19)
2019: Jonas Nicolas Biedermann, University of Basel