Introduction

I would like to congratulate this year’s graduating students and wish them every success with their future creative endeavours. This yearbook is an important testimony of what they have achieved already.

This is IT Sligo’s third year to publish the Yeats Academy Yearbook. It was planned to coincide with the end-of-year Creative Showcase of final year student’s work. But again this year, due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, we are launching the Yearbook and showcase virtually.

It is an exciting time for IT Sligo as we work with our Connacht Ulster Alliance partners in LYIT and GMIT and edge closer to become a Technological University. Our vision is that the Creative & Cultural Arts, which are so central in the West and Northwest of Ireland will play a pivotal role in this new university. Our Yeats Academy of Arts, Design & Architecture, which soon to have its refurbished new buildings in the creative hub on the Northern campus, will be a key player in these formative university times. Sincere thanks to our Yeats Academy staff who provided such a rich educational experience. They encouraged each of our students to develop their unique imagination and creativity to help them acquire the knowledge, skills and experience needed to find their distinctive voice as an actor, architect, artist, designer or writer. I am very proud of what the Yeats Academy, both students and staff, have achieved particularly in this last year and a half during these COVID-19 times.

I hope this yearbook inspires future potential students to come to IT Sligo, to push the parameters of their creativity and to pursue their dreams.

Tá súl agam go mbainfidh tú taitnamh as an leabhar seo.

Úna Parsons Head of the Faculty of Engineering & Design.