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/

‘All I know is a door into the dark’ Seamus Heaney portrait by Edward McGuire at the #UlsterMuseum #Belfast, on the 10th anniversary of the poet’s death on 30 August 2013 #Heaney #IrishPoetry

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

From the Seamus Heaney Centre:
We are pleased to be able to invite you all to Last Night's Fun: a conference and commemoration for Ciaran Carson on 13-16 Sep 2023.

The conference will celebrate the work of Ciaran Carson, poet, writer, musician and founding Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre. Keynote speakers are Professors Alan Gillis, Sinead Morrissey and Paul Muldoon.

Find out more and register here.

https://seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/Conferences/CiaranCarsonConference2023/#d.en.997477 #CiaranCarson #IrishPoetry #QUB

3) https://overcast.fm/+lMhOCr3w4/03:26

Cohost John Lee asked Pauline Turley whether the Seamus Heaney quote resonated with her:

"Walk on air against your better judgment"

Hear what she had to say at the link above ☝️

#GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #IrishPoetry #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".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishPoetry #SeamusHeaney #DeathOfANaturalist #OnThisDay

Thomas Kinsella was born on 4th May 1928 in Inchicore, Co Dublin. He was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishPoetry #ThomasKinsella #Dublin

"Seamus Heaney HomePlace to mark 10th anniversary of Co Derry poet's death with weekend of poetry, music and film"

https://www.irishnews.com/arts/2023/03/31/news/seamus_heaney_homeplace_marks_10th_anniversary_of_poet_s_death_with_special_programme_of_events-3178558/

#literaryheritage #heaney #homeplace #poetry #poetryevent #irishpoet #irishpoetry #ireland #commemoration #anniversary

Reading the memoirs of Stefan Zweig and look who pops up... #irishpoetry

Let no love poem ever come to this threshold.

Quarantine
Eavan Boland

#Poetry #EavanBoland #Ireland #IrishPoetry

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/01/saturday-poem-336.html

The next #QUB #IrishStudies seminar is on Monday 20 February at 4.30 (GMT), in person in 27 University Square 01/003.

Paul Muldoon, Ireland Professor of Poetry: 'A History of Ireland in 15 Poems, with readings from his own work'

All Welcome - This event will be in person only. Spaces are limited so please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-history-of-ireland-in-15-poems-with-readings-of-some-of-his-own-poems-tickets-547273127657 #IrishPoetry #Muldoon

The last stanza in "The Workman’s Friend", from Flann O’Brien ...

"In time of trouble and lousey strife,
You have still got a darlint plan
You still can turn to a brighter life –
A pint of plain is your only man."

https://irisharoundtheworld.com/a-pint-of-plain-is-your-only-man-by-flann-obrien/

Imagining a Guinness ad in which we hear the entire poem while viewing a pint on a bar top.

#irishpoetry

#poetry
#irishpoetry
#yeats
#wbyeats

WB Yeats died on 28 January 1939 in the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, aged 73. He was initially buried at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in south-eastern France. In September 1948 Yeats' body was moved to the churchyard of St Columba's Church, Drumcliff, County Sligo, on the Irish Naval Service corvette Lé Macha. Seán MacBride was in charge of this operation for the Irish Government.

#WBYeats #Ireland #IrishPoetry #Poetry #Sligo #SeánMacBride

Pleased to have a new poem in this year's *Stony Thursday Book*, based on the Martial Raysse painting *Made in Japan - La grande odalisque*
Big thanks to editor #annemarienichurreain
Looking forward to diving in to read the other poems 💚

#poetry #irishpoetry #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrasis #martialraysse #Ingres #artafterart #sheelanagig #stonythursday #irishwriting #feministpoetry #dianathehunter #odalisque

I'm delighted to say that The Drowned Book, chapter one of the epic medieval eco fable Sweeney's Progress is now available via Patreon, many thanks to all our Patrons. #sweeneysprogress #comics #mastoart #builesuibhne #medievalpoetry #medievalmanuscripts #irishpoetry #ecofables #art

Beautiful delivery from #DedalusPress! Because happy Christmas to me? #poetry #irishpoetry #irishpoets #ecopoetry

In the halcyon hours of winter solstice,
you loosened your grip
for the slip towards death.

You had no mate to hoist you on his back
and fly over the flat-calm sea,
mourning you with his cries.

But in your last storm, a thaisce, never fear,
our sorrow saw you safely
into the blue, in a blaze of red.

i.m. of Nessa O'Connor
#irishpoetry #memorialpoem #mastodaoine #mastowriters

In the halcyon hours of winter solstice,
you loosened your grip
for the slip towards death.

You had no mate to hoist you on his back
and fly over the flat-calm sea,
mourning you with his cries.

But in your last storm, a thaisce, never fear,
our sorrow saw you safely
into the blue, in a blaze of red.

i.m. of Nessa O'Connor
#irishpoetry #memorialpoem #mastodaoine #mastowriters

We lost one of #Ireland’s greatest poets #OnThisDay last year. The brilliance of the man will not be replaced and we’re all richer as a result of his extraordinary life

#OTD #IrishPoetry #GlobalIrishNation #Poetry #Writer

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/thomas-kinsella-one-of-ireland-s-finest-poets-has-died-aged-93-1.4762187