Irish Yeats Scholar To Speak at Washington College

Chestertown, MD —Colbert Kearney from Ireland's University College, Cork, will talk on poet William Butler Yeats, Thurs. March 2, at 4 p.m. in the Sophie Kerr Room in Miller Library on the College campus. His lecture, titled "Yeats: The Present Imperfect" will take into consideration the poems "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "No Second Troy," "September 1913," "Adam's Curse," and "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory."

Kearney also will be available to answer questions from students interested in attending University College, Cork, through Washington College's newly established exchange program with the Irish university.

Kearney's talk is free and open to the public.