This autumn saw the publication of historian and biographer Roy Foster’s new book, On Seamus Heaney, part of Princeton University Press’s Writers on Writers series.
This compact, enlightening study of Seamus Heaney and his poetry has received excellent reviews, with the Irish Times calling it “a fulsome account of his life… [and] illuminating analysis of his work” and the Financial Times saying that it was “an immensely enjoyable step towards giving Ireland’s great poet his due”.
The Irish Literary Society recently invited Professor Foster to take part in a discussion with Catherine Heaney, the poet’s daughter, for an online audience. The event was recorded in October 2020 at The Bloomsbury Hotel in London, and was introduced by Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Adrian O’Neill.
To buy a copy of On Seamus Heaney by RF Foster (Princeton £14.99), click here.
We are delighted to announce the Heaney-Miłosz Residency, a brand new partnership with the Irish Embassy in Poland and Kraków Festival Office, giving a writer the opportunity to spend time in Kraków, in the Czesław Miłosz apartment
With this unprepossessing and typically modest covering letter from 1985, Seamus Heaney submitted a first draft of his renowned poem ‘From the Republic of Conscience’ to Mary Fogarty, then head of the Irish branch of Amnesty International.
The National Library of Ireland presents an online event - available for seven days from Tuesday 8 December 2020 - celebrating 30 years since the first performance of Seamus Heaney’s play, The Cure at Troy, produced by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1990.
This autumn saw the publication of historian and biographer Roy Foster’s new study, On Seamus Heaney, part of Princeton University Press’s Writers on Writers series.
It has been a strange, uneasy summer - to put it mildly - but we’ve been lucky to have some good news to share at the end of it.
Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Dublin-based fine art print studio, Stoney Road Press, on a very special project.
Since the beginning of the current coronavirus crisis, people have been turning to poetry to express their bewilderment, to seek comfort, to put words to a situation that at times feels beyond comprehension.
Adam Low is the director of the recent BBC2 Arena documentary, Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens. Here he describes meeting the Heaney family for the first time and how he went about making this very personal and intimate documentary.
Over the past year, we’ve been working with the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University on the Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture, a new collaboration between the institute and the Estate of Seamus Heaney.