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A Memorable Evening with Seamus Heaney

Courtesy of NYU Glucksman Ireland House

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On April 13, this Saturday, Seamus Heaney would have been 80 years old. Though he passed away too early, on August 30, 2013, his work lives on. Through the last 25 years of his life, the poet had an ongoing connection with Glucksman Ireland House, the center of Irish Studies at NYU, and its founder Loretta Brennan Glucksman. On April 11, 1996, just six months after winning the … [Read more...] about A Memorable Evening with Seamus Heaney

Plunging Into Irish Studies

By Peter Monaghan

March/April 1994

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 Seamus Deane, A Renowned Literary Scholar, Fills A Void At Notre Dame  The University of Notre Dame, the home of the Fighting Irish, is the sentimental alma mater of many more actual and would-be Irish-Americans than ever have studied here.  Yet until now, the most identifiably Catholic institution in the country--one where 14 of 16 presidents have been priests of Irish … [Read more...] about Plunging Into Irish Studies

Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy

By Frances Haines

April 1991

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Seamus Heaney of County Derry holds the professorships of poetry at both Harvard and Oxford Universities. In the big kitchen of his house in Sandymount, Dublin, Heaney stood very straight, feet planted well apart, as we talked about the genesis and production of his first play, The Cure at Troy, his poetic and imaginative reworking of Sophocles' Philoctetes. He talked about … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy