Seamus Heaney, Ireland's Nobel Prize-winning poet, is donating his papers and letters to Emory University in Atlanta. While Heaney's manuscripts will stay in Ireland, his letters and papers will further enrich Emory's impressive collection of Irish papers. Emory currently holds the correspondence, as well as manuscripts, of poets Michael Longley, James Simmons, Ciaran Carson … [Read more...] about Heaney Donates Letters to Emory
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Seamus Heaney to Read at Robert Frost Festival
Seamus Heaney, Ireland's foremost poet, is the featured guest at this year's Robert Frost Festival, which takes place on Saturday, October 26 in Lawrence, MA. Heaney will read at 7:00 p.m. at Lawrence High School, where Frost attended school and was the valedictorian of his class. The Robert Frost Foundation, a non-profit group that engages school children and the general … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney to Read at Robert Frost Festival
Shaw Goes to Boston College
The John J. Burns Library of Rare Boston College has acquired three significant archives of material for its Irish Collection, which is already considered to be the most comprehensive collection of Irish research materials in the United States. The three new acquisitions are an important George Bernard Shaw collection, the Bobby Hanvey Photographic Negative Archive and the … [Read more...] about Shaw Goes to Boston College
The Bellow of Great Airs
The wood-paneled wall of Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall opened like the ribcage of a Leviathan. And two giant voices emerged. One was the drone of the pipes, the other was of the human tongue, the decibels of high and low that make poetry. Both were ancient, borne into the present and burrowed deep in the listeners' bones. The audience hushed. And then the cotton-haired … [Read more...] about The Bellow of Great Airs
Seamus Heaney Poetic Champion
A native of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. The following excerpts are taken from interviews conducted with him in 1986 and shortly after he won the Nobel in 1996. Poetry summons you. That's been my own experience. The real difficulty about being a poet is not in the writing. It's surviving the silence, surviving lack of … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney Poetic Champion