Remembering Seamus Heaney: Nicholas Allen introduces a poem that brings us back to the dark days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Two Lorries (from The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber). #Heaney #SeamusHeaney #IrishPoetry #Troubles https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/clips/22293632/

Seamus Heaney died on 30 August 2013 in Dublin. He was buried in his home village of Bellaghy, in the same graveyard as his parents, young brother, and other family members. He texted his final words, "Noli timere" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #CountyLondonderry #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Queen's announces new £4.9m Seamus Heaney Centre. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66579623 #QUB #SeamusHeaney

New BBC Radio 4 series on Seamus Heaney on the tenth anniversary of his death.

This afternoon: 'Seamus Heaney - Poet of Place'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt1p

#seamusheaney #heaney #poetry #irishpoetry #commemoration #anniversary #literaryheritage #bbc #Radio4 #bbcradio4

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57041/mid-term-break

Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney.

#SeamusHeaney #Poetry

On the 19th May 1966 Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry "Death of a Naturalist" was published by Faber and Faber. The first poem in the book was "Digging". It also contained "Blackberry-Picking" and "Mid-Term Break".

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

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Friday's poetry book of the day is :
#SeamusHeaney #poetry #poetrybooks

Literarischer #13April

„If you have the words , there‘s always a chance that you‘ll find the way.“

#SeamusHeaney #SteppingStones Geburt 1939

This poem by the late great #SeamusHeaney sums up today perfectly. There’s still a bit of light in the sky!

Sheer, bright-shining spring, spring as it used to be,
Cold in the morning, but as broad daylight
Swings open, the everlasting sky

Is a marvel to survivors.

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#SeamusHeaney #BloodySunday

And here's Heaney reading "Postscript". #Poetry #SeamusHeaney https://youtu.be/gpr3RPcynT4

And some time make the time to drive out west

Postscript
Seamus Heaney

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https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/12/saturday-poem-331.html

Evenings and mini road trips for the rest of 2022!
#SylviaPlath #SeamusHeaney #SimonArmitage #cds #christinemcvie

Evenings and mini road trips for the rest of 2022!
#SylviaPlath #SeamusHeaney #SimonArmitage #cds #christinemcvie

#TodaysPoem was beautifully set to song by Irish singer-songwriter, Lisa Hannigan:

#Poetry #SeamusHeaney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhleFSOSCM&feature=youtu.be

On 10 December 1995 #SeamusHeaney was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature. In his acceptance speech he recalled listening to the radio as a child and becoming familiar with the names of the stations on the dial, places like Leipzig and Oslo and Stuttgart and Warsaw and, of course, with Stockholm. 'I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.' (NLI)
#IrishPoetry https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/heaney/lecture/

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Need some poetry on your Saturday morning?

Look no further.

This short film re-examines a recent @CourtauldRes@twitter.com exhibition of paintings of Seamus Heaney, through performances of his poetry by @MyICCLondon@twitter.com 's @williamfoote92@twitter.com & Ruby Kearney.

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https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/icc_digital/courtauld-connections-at-somerset-house-seamus-heaney-poems/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/irishinbritain/status/1601532334989262848

When I made this #embroidery I was thinking of the poem ‘The Cure at Troy’ by Seamus Heaney, and the lines:

"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.

So hope for a great sea change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells."

#SeamusHeaney #Poetry

On 7th December 1995 Seamus Heaney accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. The award was for for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

He would refer to the prize discreetly as "the N thing" in personal exchanges with others.

#SeamusHeaney #Ireland #Poetry #IrishPoetry