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Gerard Beirne
from The Irish Literary Times
September 3, 2013 2:58 PM
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Fellow poet Robert Lowell described Heaney as the ‘most important Irish poet since Yeats’
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September 5, 2020 5:36 AM
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'The sense of occasion was palpable, with expectation building up before each performance," Roy Foster says of the early-Nineties Oxford lectures given by the then newly arrived Seamus Heaney. "Heaney invariably entered on time, approaching the podium at a steady canter, gown billowing, half-moon spectacles perched on his nose, giving half-smiles to right and left, and a full grin when he reached the lectern and turned to face the enormous and anticipatory audience… What followed did not disappoint."
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Gerard Beirne
August 30, 2020 2:46 PM
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US PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Joe Biden paraphrased Seamus Heaney in his speech accepting the Democrati...
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August 30, 2020 2:45 PM
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August 30, 2020 2:43 PM
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“History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.” ―Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was awarded numerous prizes over the years and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
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December 12, 2019 3:31 PM
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To mark the broadcast of Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens, a new BBC documentary celebrating Heaney's life and poetry, Seamus's eldest son Mick discussed the film and shared memories of his father with Seán Rocks on RTÉ Arena.
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Gerard Beirne
November 29, 2019 6:30 PM
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Documentary about the life and work of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, with his widow Marie and children Michael, Christopher and Catherine talking about thei
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Gerard Beirne
November 29, 2019 6:09 PM
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A new feature-length film exploring the life of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will air on BBC Two later this week.
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Gerard Beirne
November 15, 2019 7:19 PM
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A FEATURE-LENGTH biopic detailing the life and works of the late great poet Seamus Heaney will be shown on BBC 2 later this month.
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Gerard Beirne
September 3, 2019 2:30 PM
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IT WAS a school at the heart of a west Belfast community during the darkest years of the Troubles, and has remained a landmark building for decades.
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August 30, 2019 9:21 AM
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A few weeks before his death, Seamus Heaney signed off on his translation of Book VI of Virgil’s epic twelve-volume poem. In the two-thousand-year-old verse, Aeneas journeys to the Underworld in search of the shade of his father and other ghosts from his life. Published after his death, Heaney’s lifetime’s craft culminates in his masterful and tender translation. In their intimate realisation of it, Stephen Rea reads the text and Neil Martin underscores on cello – mostly together, though at times we hear just the words, at others just the music. It was commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2016 with subsequent performances in Dublin and New York. Stephen Rea and Neil Martin have been collaborating for thirty years, first sharing a stage (with Seamus Heaney, inter alia) in 1988 on a Field Day Theatre Company event. Founded by Stephen Rea and Brian Friel, Field Day will mark its 40th anniversary in 2020.
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August 30, 2019 9:19 AM
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As we quickly approach the sixth anniversary of Ireland's great poet's death it's good to note that “Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again” exhibition is open in Dublin until 2021. The New York Times’ Jim Dwyer reports that there’s a new Seamus Heaney exhibit in Dublin called “Seamus Heaney: Listen Now...
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Gerard Beirne
August 30, 2019 9:18 AM
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On this day, August 30, in 2013, Irish poet Seamus Heaney passed away. He describes his own journey through life best in his beautiful epitaph.
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September 16, 2020 6:16 AM
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Roy Foster gives a fluent account of beloved poet with illuminating analysis of his work
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August 30, 2020 2:47 PM
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Seamus Heaney shares thoughts with David Williams about words, etymologies, and dictionaries...
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August 30, 2020 2:45 PM
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Presidential frontrunner quotes Irish wordsmith in his nomination acceptance speech Joe Biden is not the first nor is he likely to be the l...
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August 30, 2020 2:44 PM
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The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. ...
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May 21, 2020 5:23 AM
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Stephen Sexton on the mutable parameters of elegy Hail starts its patter and John joins me in the gazebo. I don’t know John, but we will talk, and thereafter nod hell
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November 29, 2019 6:33 PM
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THE surviving brothers of Seamus Heaney have spoken for the first time of their childhood with the Nobel Prize winner and the experiences that inspired many of his greatest poems.
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November 29, 2019 6:29 PM
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Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens, showing in the IFI on December 2nd, offers accounts of the poet from those who knew him best.
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November 29, 2019 5:44 AM
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“Easily the luckiest poet in the history of English literature” — could it be that Michael Longley’s eyes twinkle mischievously as he delivers this verdict on his old friend Seamus Heaney? In the context of The Music of What Happens, a studiously respectful new documentary about Heaney’s life and wo
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October 4, 2019 12:42 PM
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Stephanie Burt writes about Seamus Heaney’s posthumous poetry collection “100 Poems,” which highlights his work as a poet of friendship and family.
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August 30, 2019 9:21 AM
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Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation with Marie Heaney and Catherine Heaney: Celebrating the Book Launch of Seamus Heaney’s “100 Poems”...
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August 30, 2019 9:20 AM
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Wedding Day I am afraid. Sound has stopped in the day And the images reel over And over. Why all those tears, The wild grief on his face Outside the taxi?The...
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August 30, 2019 9:19 AM
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A short film released by Tourism Ireland, in 2018, celebrates life, literature, and inspiration of Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Derry. Proud fellow Northern Irishman Liam Neeson has lent his world-famous voice to a new short film which celebrates the life, literature, and inspiration of Ireland’s...
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August 30, 2019 9:18 AM
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"THE PRESENCE of Seamus was a warm one, full of humour, care and courtesy – a courtesy that ena...
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