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The Ireland Podcast161. Marie McGuckin: Seamus Heaney HomePlaceEpisode 161 Fender Jackson travels to Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, County Derry, to speak with Marie McGuckin, Sales and Marketing Officer. Recorded on Friday 9th May 2025, the conversation explores the cultural significance of Heaney’s legacy, the role HomePlace plays in celebrating his life and work, and how the centre connects with visitors from across the globe.Conversation includes: introductions; Bellaghy; pride and home; ‘Digging’; The Turf Man sculpture; Paddy Heaney; early life; Broagh; Castledawson; who Seamus Heaney was; ‘Death Of A Naturalist’; the alumni of St Columb's College, Derry; Phil Coulter; Moss Bawn; Hugh and Suzanne Hea...2025-05-131h 18
Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA ArchivesSeamus Heaney: Death of a NaturalistIn this captivating episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, step back in time to 1990 Toronto and immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The recording captures Heaney in an intimate reading at the Harbourfront Reading Series, where his distinctive Irish voice brings to life some of his most beloved poems, including "Digging," "Follower," and "The Railway Children."Heaney's verse resonates with the earthy cadence of his native countryside, conjuring vivid tableaux of his heritage—his father's calloused hands excavating potatoes from resistant soil, his aunt's practiced movements transforming fl...2025-05-0231 min
Frank Skinner's Poetry PodcastSeamus HeaneyFrank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenced are ‘Personal Helicon’ from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘Limbo’ by Seamus Heaney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2024-12-1148 min
Frank Off The Radio: The Frank Skinner PodcastFrank Skinner's Poetry Podcast: Seamus HeaneyFrank spends a day in Belfast, wallowing in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. The poem referenced are ‘Personal Helicon’ from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘Limbo’ by Seamus Heaney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2024-12-1148 min
Close ReadingsPolitical Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus HeaneyAs an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’.A dreamlike reworking of Dante’s Purgatorio, ‘Station Island’ describes Heaney’s encounters with the ghosts of childhood acquaintances, literary heroes and victims of the Troubles. Seamus and Mark explore Heaney’s unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode...2024-11-2812 min
Political Poems‘Station Island’ by Seamus HeaneyAs an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’.A dreamlike reworking of Dante’s Purgatorio, ‘Station Island’ describes Heaney’s encounters with the ghosts of childhood acquaintances, literary heroes and victims of the Troubles. Seamus and Mark explore Heaney’s unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode...2024-11-2812 min
The Poetry Exchange96. A Kite for Aibhín by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to FionaDear friendsWe are mourning and missing our beloved Fiona, whilst also celebrating her extraordinary life and work, and everything she brought to all our lives. We continue to feel her with us in everything we do. This month, we pay tribute to Fiona by re-relasing the conversation in which Fiona visits The Poetry Exchange for herself, talking about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'A Kite for Aibhín' by Seamus Heaney. The conversation was originally recorded in France in 2017, and you can also find it a...2024-10-0635 minThe Poetry Exchange96. A Kite for Aibhín by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to FionaDear friendsWe are mourning and missing our beloved Fiona, whilst also celebrating her extraordinary life and work, and everything she brought to all our lives. We continue to feel her with us in everything we do. This month, we pay tribute to Fiona by re-relasing the conversation in which Fiona visits The Poetry Exchange for herself, talking about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'A Kite for Aibhín' by Seamus Heaney. The conversation was originally recorded in France in 2017, and you can also find it a...2024-10-0635 min
Human Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: 7 Poems from "North"An episode from 8/1/24: Tonight, I read seven poems from Seamus Heaney’s 1974 collection, North. Few poets from the last century took on the reality of violence in the ancient and modern world the way Heaney does in his poems about Iron Age bog bodies, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and ruminations through mythology and Viking history. I also read four poems from Heaney’s previous books, that can serve as a prologue to North:
Personal Helicon (from Death of a Naturalist)
Dream (from Door into the Dark)
Bogland (from Door into the Dark)
The Tollund Man (from Wintering Out)
...2024-08-011h 03
Beyond the VerseThe Spade, The Pen and The Gun: 'Digging' through the Past with Seamus HeaneyIn this week's episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya explore the poem 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney, a poem from one of the most revered Irish poets of all time.They discuss 'Digging' (1966), exploring not only the cultural inheritances imbued in the poem, but the physical manifestations of labour, as well as how nature and literature interact in the poem. Joe and Maiya discuss Heaney's literary forefathers and incredible legacy in both the Irish and English canon.Get PDFs on 'Digging' exclusive to Poetry+ user...2024-08-0135 min
The Greg Heaney Music Podcast ShowEpisode 15: Cora and Seamus HeaneyAs a Father's Day present to my wonderful brother Mike Heaney, here is the officially published podcast that his kids Cora and Seamus recorded with me a few months ago. We even dive into a little childhood memory I have of learning to play guitar at the same time when my brother and I were young. Ahhh memories!This conversation gets WILD and ping pongs around to hundreds of different topics. The kids and I talk music, creativity, Taylor Swift, neurodivergence, a need for more RECESS in school, and managing emotions, among other topics.Cora Hea...2024-06-1659 min
The Audio BrowserA Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney Podcast: Drama On One (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus HeaneyPub date: 2024-04-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTo mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers' Memorial Day, 28th April 2024, which this year is focussing on the impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health, we offer a podcast of A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork emb...2024-06-0409 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Seamus HeaneyCatherine Hickey is joined by Georgia Lee Flynn, Eorann Kavanagh and Patrick Murtagh to discuss the powerful, playful poet Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney is a beloved Irish poet, winner of the Noble Prize for Literature, and former resident of the Garden of Ireland. In this pod, the crew discuss their love of Heaney, his use of allusion, aural imagery and a unique, playful tone that manages to discuss personal events in such a way that they are given magical, mythical and eternal qualities. Great art is capable of turning our ordinary existence into something extraordinary, and in Heaney, we...2024-05-2936 min
The Poetry's Dead PodcastSeamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By AccidentAnother episode with the lads yapping on about poems just for your enjoyment!This one, we challenge some preconceptions that can sit in front of poets by talking about the whole Poet Laurete role and share some of Carol Ann Duffy's work.We delve into the muddy fields of Seamus Heaney next, one of Ireland's most celebrate modern poets of our time. Who Ryan doesn't really get. Daragh Fleming and Jessie Floods are our homegrown choices this week. Both beautiful writers, and we've handpicked our favourite poems from them.Our Agony A...2024-04-2941 min
The Two-Way Poetry PodcastAngelina D'Roza on Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy (translated from Sophocles) and her own poem 'Correspondences: The Credence of Birds'In this episode, I talk to the poet Angelina D’Roza about how an extract from Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, a verse translation of Sophocles' play Philoctetes, influenced the writing of her own poem ‘Correspondences: The Credence of Birds’.
Angelina talks about how Seamus Heaney’s stage directions from The Cure at Troy grabbed her attention, the ‘right thing at the right time.’ She goes on to discuss how she uses this text (and other corresponding texts) as a way in to explore a subject like colonialism, but it’s as much the delight in language at t...2024-01-2259 min
New Books in Irish StudiesSeamus Heaney’s AfterlivesIn 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘temple inside our hearing’ which the passage of the poem calls into being. It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called ‘the steadfastness of speech articulation,’ from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors. It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’s concerns or the poet’...2023-11-081h 20
New Books in PoetrySeamus Heaney’s AfterlivesIn 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘temple inside our hearing’ which the passage of the poem calls into being. It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called ‘the steadfastness of speech articulation,’ from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors. It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’s concerns or the poet’...2023-11-081h 20
New Books in BiographySeamus Heaney’s AfterlivesIn 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘temple inside our hearing’ which the passage of the poem calls into being. It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called ‘the steadfastness of speech articulation,’ from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors. It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’s concerns or the poet’...2023-11-081h 22
New Books in Literary StudiesSeamus Heaney’s AfterlivesIn 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained that the adequacy of lyric poetry spoke to the “‘temple inside our hearing’ which the passage of the poem calls into being. It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called ‘the steadfastness of speech articulation,’ from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors. It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’s concerns or the poet’...2023-11-081h 22
Words That BurnThe Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney In this episode, we reflect upon the profound impact of Seamus Heaney, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the poet’s passing by examining his poignant piece, "The Haw Lantern."We explore:The rich, multifaceted landscapes in Heaney's poetry, capturing the essence of Ireland with raw, genuine portrayals.Heaney’s unique ability to intertwine dense, academic poetic language with relatable narratives, allowing readers to experience and inhabit the worlds he depicts.Heaney’s intertwining of classical references and Irish folklore, from Diogenes's lantern to the symbolic Hawthorn Tree, weaving a tapestry of interconnected myths and truths.Heaney...2023-09-2716 min
Poems for the Speed of LifeEp. 163: "Blackberry-Picking", by Seamus HeaneyAs I record this, in September, the year has swayed totally from summer to autumn. A week ago we had a heatwave, the mercury rose past 30 degrees Celsius and everyone went to work in shorts. Today, the branches are swaying in the wind, the rain is heavy, the temperatures have dropped and the evenings are closing in.
This poem by Seamus Heaney is set in late August, at that moment between the passage of time from summer to autumn.
There is a much bigger passage of time here too, though, from youth to whatever comes...2023-09-2104 min
Sunday MiscellanyA tribute for Seamus Heaney on his tenth anniversaryEarthed lightning, letters of freedom, and a late love poem: a celebration of the late Seamus Heaney to mark his tenth anniversary. With Grace Wells, Gerald Dawe, Denise Blake, Mícheál McCann, Seamus Heaney and Marie Heaney2023-09-0335 min
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry AdamsCork | X | Seamus HeaneyThe Road To Cork. In 1986 I gave a talk at a Sinn Féin conference which became known by activists of my vintage as The Road to Cork or The Bus to Cork. More of that at another time. Suffice for now to say that I made the journey to Cork a metaphor for the journey to the new republic. I am minded of that now as our car speeds south and I sit in the back penning these words. The road to Cork is indeed a very long road. So too the road to the new repu...2023-09-0314 min
Human Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: 10 Essential PoemsAn episode from 8/25/23: Tonight, I read ten essential poems from one of the great and most public poets of the last seventy years, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013). It isn’t hard to come by details of Heaney’s life, but Stepping Stones (where Heaney is interviewed at length in what amounts to an autobiography), is a good place to start. His poems are collected in 100 Poems, and in the individual collections.
There are many ways to look at Heaney’s work, and the ten poems I choose only present one picture: a poet as at home on the farm a...2023-08-251h 08
Poema diario304. Seamus Heaney - Norte (14.08.23)Seamus Heaney: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney
North: https://www.andreakrupp.com/blog/a-poem-by-seamus-heaney 2023-08-1401 minHuman Voices Wake UsShakespeare's Library / Ancient Egypt's Temple Libraries / Seamus Heaney Goes to SchoolAn episode from 8/11/23: Tonight, we look into libraries and learning:
In the first part, I read from Jonathan Bate’s biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age. Based on Shakespeare’s education and the evidence of the plays, Bate gives a thorough guess as to the essential twenty or thirty books that the Bard might have had on his shelf.
In the second part, I read from Serge Sauneron’s Priests of Ancient Egypt. Here, Sauneron talks about the libraries—called “Houses of Life”—attached to Egyptian temples, as well as the scribal and priestly culture that produced Egypt’s variou...2023-08-1148 min
Poems for the Speed of LifeEp. 145: Three Poems on Male Experience, from Pat Boran, Seamus Heaney and Norman MacCaigWelcome to the second episode of the Summer 2023 series of Poems for the Speed of Life, where each episode brings you three poems connected by some thread or theme.
The theme for this episode is male experiences.
The poems are:
Tent, by Pat Boran
Digging, by Seamus Heaney
Praise of a Man, by Norman MacCaig
Please search in the archives to listen to the original episodes, each of which contains an introduction to each poem and each poet.
You will find Pat Boran in Episode 99, Seamus Heaney in Episode 54 and Norman...2023-07-2607 min
The Daily PoemSeamus Heaney's "May"What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney. Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the...2023-05-2207 minPoema diario208. Seamus Heaney - Ostras (10.05.23)Sobre Seamus Heaney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney
Oysters: https://www.poeticous.com/seamus-heaney/oysters 2023-05-1001 min
Poems for the Speed of LifeEp. 54: "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus HeaneyThis is Episode 54 of Poems for the Speed of Life. Today's episode is a first for this show, as it includes two poems: "Digging" and "Follower", both by Seamus Heaney.
I felt like these two poems deserved to be read and heard and experienced together. Both “Digging” and “Follower” were included in Heaney’s first collection, Death of a Naturalist, in 1966.
The central thrust of both poems is the poet’s relationship with his father.
While Heaney’s farmer father Patrick would not die until 20 years later, each poem almost reads like an elegy: a tribute...2023-02-2704 minPoema diario61. Seamus Heaney - Selección de “Digas lo que digas no digas nada” (14.12.22)Sobre Seamus Heaney: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney
Whatever you say, say nothing (leído por Heaney): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDw5n_rb5I
Sobre Andrés Catalán, el traductor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Catalán
2022-12-1404 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: Live at the Crescent Arts CentreIn this episode, Hilary interviews Padraig Regan, Mícheál McCann, Toby Buckley, Dawn Watson, and Paul Maddern in a live recording as a part of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre on the15th of November, 2022.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Se...2022-11-221h 08The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: In Conversation with Paul MaddernIn this episode, Paul Maddern discusses his current and upcoming works.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Seamus Heaney Centre. This podcast was produced and edited by Suzi Bloom. It was recorded by Georgios Varoutsos and features music from Connie Galvin. As always, thank you to Glen...2022-11-1536 minThe Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: In Conversation with Dawn WatsonIn this episode, Dawn Watson discusses her current and upcoming works.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Seamus Heaney Centre. This podcast was produced and edited by Suzi Bloom. It was recorded by Georgios Varoutsos and features music from Connie Galvin. As always, thank you to Glen...2022-11-1532 minThe Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: In Conversation with Toby BuckleyIn this episode, Toby Buckley discusses his current and upcoming works.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Seamus Heaney Centre. This podcast was produced and edited by Suzi Bloom. It was recorded by Georgios Varoutsos and features music from Connie Galvin. As always, thank you to Glen...2022-11-1528 minThe Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: In Conversation with Mícheál McCannIn this episode, Mícheál McCann discusses his current and upcoming works.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Seamus Heaney Centre. This podcast was produced and edited by Suzi Bloom. It was recorded by Georgios Varoutsos and features music from Connie Galvin. As always, thank you to...2022-11-1535 minThe Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastQueer at Queen's: In Conversation with Padraig ReganIn this episode, Padraig Regan discusses their current and upcoming works.
The Queer at Queen’s podcast is a series of interviews celebrating the successes of LGBT+ poets from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. Hosted by Hilary McCollum, the SHC Publishing Fellow 2022, this podcast seeks to celebrate the wonderful queer authors and poets who have been influenced positively by their time working in and around the Seamus Heaney Centre. This podcast was produced and edited by Suzi Bloom. It was recorded by Georgios Varoutsos and features music from Connie Galvin. As always, thank you to Glenn...2022-11-1532 min
Close ReadingsModern-ish Poets Series 1: Seamus HeaneyFor the ninth episode of their series, Seamus and Mark discuss the life and work of Seamus Heaney, whose first collection, Death of Naturalist, established him immediately as a leading poetic voice in world in which modernism seemed to have run its course. They look at how his work draws extensively on his childhood, its use of poetic sounds to bind him to his native ground, its intricate engagement with myth, and his questioning of what sort of poetry is appropriate for someone in his social and historical moment.This is an extract from the episode. To l...2022-10-0911 min
Human Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney's Origin StoryAn episode from 1/21/22: How does a great poet come into the world? What is their childhood like, their education? What was the first poetry they knew, and when did they realize they wanted to write poetry themselves? Tonight, we hear the Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s answers to these questions.
As usual, these remarks come from Dennis O’Driscoll’s book-length collection of interviews with Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. You can listen to our other episodes on Heaney and his poetry here.
Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, wher...2022-01-2136 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastThe Write Night Podcast: Episode 5, Who Are You Writing For? (February 10th, 2021)
The Write Night Podcast is a new regular series from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, adapted from Andrew Rahal's popular pandemic newsletter. His is a voice in the void, sharing moments of reflection and insight into a writing life.
In this episode, originally published on the 10th of February 2021, Andrew asks us to consider the people we write to, and those we write for.
The Write Night Podcast is written and hosted by Andrew Rahal, and produced by Conor McCafferty, Dara McWade and Rachel Brown, with music by Connie Gavin. If you would li...2021-12-1304 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastThe Write Night Podcast: Episode 4, On Workshops
The Write Night Podcast is a new regular series from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, adapted from Andrew Rahal's popular pandemic newsletter. His is a voice in the void, sharing moments of reflection and insight into a writing life.
In this episode, originally published on the 2nd of February 2021, Andrew discusses the pandemic's effects on writing communities, and the centrality of the Writer's Workshop.
The Write Night Podcast is written and hosted by Andrew Rahal, and produced by Conor McCafferty, Dara McWade and Rachel Brown, with music by Connie Gavin. If you would lik...2021-12-0607 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastThe Write Night Podcast: Episode 3, On Death (April 16, 2021)
The Write Night Podcast is a new regular series from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, adapted from Andrew Rahal's popular pandemic newsletter. His is a voice in the void, sharing moments of reflection and insight into a writing life.
In this episode, originally published on the 16th April, 2021, Andrew discusses Death, and the ways writers have dealt with it in their work.
The Write Night Podcast is written and hosted by Andrew Rahal, and produced by Conor McCafferty, Dara McWade and Rachel Brown, with music by Connie Gavin. If you would like to joi...2021-11-1508 min
Loaf of Bread GAALoaf 2 GAA Global: Slice 37 - Séamus Heaney's GACPrivet and welcome to Moscow, Russia!!! On Slice 37 it’s a very special one for me as I get to chat to one of my oldest mates from home, Colm, alongside Brendan (Derry) and Kieran (Fermanagh) as we chat all about Seamus Heaney’s GAC in Moscow, Russia! We chat the origins of the club and how it could have been Joe Dolan GAA, teaching GAA on the Russian curriculum, approval from the Heaney family, city rivals Moscow Shamrocks, celebrations, Father Ted, Alan Partridge, laminated team sheets, teaching hand-passing to girlfriends and tough decisions like Sharapova or Kournikova.. and the...2021-11-151h 22
The Litpoetry Podcast‘Digging‘ by Seamus Heaney: (The Litpoetry Podcast Season 2, Episode 14)This podcast contains a reading of Seamus Heaney, "Digging" from Death of a Naturalist. Copyright 1966 by Seamus Heaney, http://us.macmillan.com/fsg Used for Educational purposes under Fair Usage. T
his audio adaptation and podcast is copyrighted, © James Laidler (Litpoetry) Poetry Voice Over recorded and performed by 'Simon Jackson Voice Over': www.simonjacksonvo.com
The following audio tracks used are licensed to Litpoetry through www.musicbed.com and include: 'You are Mine’ (feat. Holly Maher) by Secret Nation, ‘Love You Well’ by Secret Nation. Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creati...2021-11-0428 min
yoliricoDigging / Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney es un poeta irlandés reconocido mundialmente como uno de los grandes poetas del siglo 20. De Irlanda del Norte, criado en County Derry, vivió muchos años en Dublín. Fue autor de más de veinte volúmenes de poesía y critica literaria y editó cuantiosas antologías. Ganó el premio Nobel de Literatura en 1995 destacado por su refinamiento lírico y profundidad ética. Enseñó en Harvard (1985-2006) y fue profesor de poesía en Oxford (1989-1994). Murió en 2013.
Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th cent...2021-11-0204 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastThe Write Night Podcast: Episode 2, On Autumn (13th October, 2020)
The Write Night Podcast is a new regular series from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, adapted from Andrew Rahal's popular pandemic newsletter. His is a voice in the void, sharing moments of reflection and insight into a writing life.
In this episode, originally published on the 13th October 2020, Andrew discusses the Autumn, and its presence in works of prose and poetry both.
The Write Night Podcast is written and hosted by Andrew Rahal, and produced by Conor McCafferty, Dara McWade and Rachel Brown, with music by Connie Gavin. If you would like to jo...2021-10-2507 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastThe Write Night Podcast: Episode 1, On Libraries (18th October, 2021)The Write Night Podcast is a new regular series from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, adapted from Andrew Rahal's popular pandemic newsletter. His is a voice in the void, sharing moments of reflection and insight into a writing life.
In this episode, Andrew celebrates the library.
The Write Night Podcast is written and hosted by Andrew Rahal, and produced by Conor McCafferty, Dara McWade and Rachel Brown, with music by Connie Gavin. Special thanks to the unknown pianist in Belfast Central Library. If you would like to join the Write Night Family, you can...2021-10-1807 min
Pod BritanniaS5 Ep 86: Seamus Heaney - Nord-Irlands samvittighetI ukens episode av Pod Britannia fortsetter vi vår serie om britiske forfattere som har speilet og formet sin tid. Denne gangen handler det om Seamus Heaney (1939-2013). Heaney skrev dikt som forente det personlige og det politiske, det lokale og det universelle. Han levde hele sitt liv med spenningen mellom det britiske og det irske i Nord-Irland. Hør Juan Christian Pellicer, professor i engelskspråklig litteratur ved UiO, i samtale med Øivind Bratberg. Podkastproduksjon av Per Åsmund Reymert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-08-2625 min
The Archive ProjectSeamus Heaney (Rebroadcast)In this episode, we feature a talk and reading by Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, the late Seamus Heaney from Portland Arts & Lectures in 2002. Heaney opens with poems from his very first collection and then takes us on a journey through more than four decades of his work that touches on everything from the sounds and smells of his mother baking bread in the 1940s, to his deep knowledge of poetry and its influence on his work, to meditations on the role of the artist in moments of political or national crisis – this last subject is, of course, for He...2021-08-2351 min
Basement Poetry Podcast"The Rainstick" - Seamus HeaneyToday we will take a look at "The Rainstick" by Seamus Heaney.
Bio: Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." Heaney taught at Harvard University (1985-2006) and...2021-08-1011 min
Back in AmericaPoetism Part 5: Can you speak for others? Lorenzo Bartolucci on Seamus Heaney and HozierAcross Northern Europe, so-called “bog people” have often been discovered shuffling around in the peat. While no one is quite certain where these quasi-mummified bodies come from––some date as recently as the 1940s––they have posed a strange mystery for countless poets and artists.
This week, Back in America’s Poetism team takes a look at one of Seamus Heaney’s bog-inspired poems “The Bog Queen” from his 1975 collection North. Written in the spring of the May 1968 movement and the beginning of the Irish “Troubles,” “The Bog Queen” ventriloquizes the voice of its eponymous queen, pretending to experience underground li...2021-07-3042 minHuman Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: On "Seeing Things"An episode from 7/14/21: Tonight, I read and comment on interviews that Seamus Heaney gave on the writing of his 1991 book, Seeing Things. Perhaps surpassing even his 1975 collection, North, Seeing Things includes the forty-eight part autobiographical sequence called "Squarings," and much of the interview that I read from is taken up with these incredible poems. The interviews are from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my...2021-07-2540 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastEpisode 9: with Marian KeyesThe Seamus Heaney Centre Podcast is created in a small back room by Stephen Sexton and Rachel Brown. It was produced by Conor McCafferty, with music by Nick Boyle, and editorial support by Dara McWade.
Marian Keyes was a Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow alongside playwright and director Enda Walsh, and artist and author Oliver Jeffers. 2021-06-251h 12Human Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Wintering Out," & Interviews with HeaneyAn episode from 6/12/21: Tonight, I read three poems from Seamus Heaney's third collection, Wintering Out (1972):
The Tollund Man
Limbo
First Calf
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Wintering Out, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
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Greystone ConversationsSeamus Heaney's "Digging" and Vocation as CultivationScripture regularly deploys the imagery of agriculture and farming to describe the nature and dynamics of human faithfulness--or the lack thereof. While many might be inclined to explain away the agrarian assumptions of biblical teaching on vocation and human meaning as mere metaphors, others might be equally tempted to confuse the biblical direction of argument with a clear warrant for farming as the highest human calling. The truth, though, is somewhere in the middle, and its appreciation may go a long way toward our urgently needed recovery of the integrity and value of good work, the long view of...2021-06-0934 minHuman Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Door into the Dark" & Interviews with HeaneyAn episode from 5/30/21: Tonight, I read three poems from Seamus Heaney's second collection, Door into the Dark (1969):
Dream
The Forge
Bogland
Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Door into the Dark, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. The first five of Heaney's collections can be purchased here, and a good selection from the first half of his career can be found in Selected Poems 1966-1987.
Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and...2021-05-3049 minHuman Voices Wake UsSeamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Death of a Naturalist" & Interviews with HeaneyAn episode from 5/16/21: Tonight, I read three poems from one of the great literary debuts of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist (1966). Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Death of a Naturalist, taken from Dennis O'Driscoll's Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. The poems are:
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Talk TalksThe Cure Of Troy by Seamus Heaney, inspirational poemThe Cure Of Troy, inspirational poem by Seamus Heaney
THE CURE OF TROY
Human beings suffer.
They torture one another
hey get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
History says,
Don’t hope
On the 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.
Call mi...2021-04-1703 min
Open BookHow to Read Ted Hughes and Seamus HeaneyThe closing episode of Season 2 is about two giants of late-20th-century poetry: the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. We’ll read Heaney’s “Punishment,” Hughes’s “Hawk Roosting” and “The Thought-Fox,” and Heaney’s “Digging” — in that order, to draw out shared themes of nature, violence, and the origins of poetry.This ends Season 2, and the start of the summer sabbatical: a time of pleasure reading planning and reflecting on what's to come in this series. To suggest future topics, particularly on subjects of broad interest (i.e. rather than on particular texts), or to s...2021-04-0956 minThe Archive ProjectSeamus HeaneyIn this episode, we feature a talk and reading by Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, the late Seamus Heaney from Portland Arts & Lectures in 2002. Heaney opens with poems from his very first collection and then takes us on a journey through more than four decades of his work that touches on everything from the sounds and smells of his mother baking bread in the 1940s, to his deep knowledge of poetry and its influence on his work, to meditations on the role of the artist in moments of political or national crisis – this last subject is, of course, for He...2021-04-0551 min
My Poetry Readings with Declan Walsh'The Cure at Troy' - by Seamus Heaney (S1E7)About the PoemThe Cure at Troy was written in 1990 for the Field Day Theatre Company, and is an adapted version of the ancient tragic Greek play, Philoctetes, written by Sophocles – which takes place in the closing days of the Trojan War.The resonance of this ancient tale with that of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and perhaps the struggle of the Apartheid movement in South Africa, was a major attraction to Seamus Heaney, The poem, at its heart, addresses questions of personal morality, deceit and political expediency, suffering and healing. ...2021-02-1309 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastArchive Episode: Ciaran CarsonThe archive recordings were selected from the Seamus Heaney Centre’s audio collection, and featured music by Ciaran and Deirdre Carson, and Padraigin Ni Uallachain, and words from Seamus Heaney and Ciaran himself. With additional readings from Milena Williamson, Dane Holt and Stephen Sexton. Poems by Ciaran Carson are used by kind permission of The Gallery Press and the Estate of Ciaran Carson.
With thanks as always to our guest writers, to Padraigin Ni Uallachain, the Heaney family, the Gallery Press, Gail McConnell, and to Paul Maddern for first collecting these recordings. Special thanks to Deirdre Carson, and the Ca...2021-01-1828 min
Arts & IdeasSylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney. Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiNew critical biographies of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation for National Poetry Day about our image of a poet. Is it possible to separate a poet's life from their work? Shahidha Bari is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sophie Oliver and Peter Mackay, and by Plath biographer Heather Clark. And she talks to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her new novel, The First Woman – a coming of age story of a young girl in Uganda, mixing modern feminism and folk beliefs against a backdrop of Idi Amin’s regime.Th...2020-10-0145 min
Arty Farty with VincentDeath of a Naturalist by Seamus HeaneyAs a kid, this was one of the first poems that I ever really loved. It had everything going for it. It was about the things I did with my friends. It also had a funny twist, that made me giggle, and best of all, it used a form of the word fart. What was not to like about it? But as a poet, it also provides lessons in the use of language, and how the right word can change the experience from merely reading a poem to being right there experiencing it. And since the day before recording...2020-09-0424 min
Trinity Long Room HubTLRH | Fields of Vision: Seamus Heaney and SocietyRecorded September 02, 2020.
This special Trinity Long Room Hub online event, which marked the seventh anniversary of the poet’s death (on 30th August, 2013) looked at the work of Seamus Heaney through five images which reflect his preoccupations and help us to understand his achievement in poetry. These images, were discussed by two leading scholars of Heaney’s work, Rosie Lavan and Chris Morash, evoke different moments in his career, from his early appearance in Vogue magazine to his humane meditations on the history of violence prompted by world events. Accompanied by selections from his poetry and prose read by the dist...2020-09-0358 min
The Seamus Heaney Centre PodcastShowcase Episode: Poetry Summer School 2020Featuring new work by Genevieve Stevens, Steven Blythe, Alanna Offield, Kevin O'Farrell, Grace Tower, Lorraine Carey, Tim Dwyer, Rebecca Farmer, Sinead Nolan, Iain Whiteley, Rachel Donati, Julia Wieting, Tom Day, Dide, Stephanie Green, and Erin Vance. With a personal note from Nick Laird.
The Seamus Heaney Poetry Summer School is an annual intensive week of study for emerging poets, hosted by the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s, and led by Professor Nick Laird.
The Seamus Heaney Centre Podcast is created in a small back room by Ian Sansom, Stephen Sexton, and Rachel Brown. This episode was prod...2020-08-3144 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 1: Seamus Heaney, DiggingIn this episode, we begin learning about poetry through Seamus Heaney's great poem "Digging."
For the text of Heaney's poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
To hear Seamus Heaney reading this poem himself, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNRkPU1LSUg
For more on Seamus Heaney, please visit: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/seamus-heaneyLinks:Digging by Seamus Heaney | Poetry FoundationSeamus Heaney reading "Digging"More on Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist2020-08-3114 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour Part 7- 'Don't Be Afraid'The final part of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' exhibition. In this section we take a look at the artists Maser's 'Don't Be Afraid' artwork which is inspired by the final words of Seamus Heaney. This tour can be used when visiting this exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3002 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour Part 5-'Conscience'Part 5 of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' audio tour. This section explores Seamus Heaney's reponse to the political situation in Northern Ireland and the pursuit of peace. This tour can be used when visiting this exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3005 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour Part 4- 'Creativity'Part 4 of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' audio tour. This section explores Seamus Heaney's writing process and the friendships he made throughout his career. This tour can be used when visiting this exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3005 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour Part 6- 'Marvels'Part 6 of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' audio tour. This part of the exhibition highlights the uplifting quality of Seamus Heaney's work. This tour can be used when visiting this exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3004 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour Part 3-'Excavations'Part 3 of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' audio tour. This section explores Seamus Heaney's childhood and early life. This tour can be used when visiting this exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3004 min
The National Library of Ireland'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' Audio Tour- Part 2-'Beginnings'Part 2 of the 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' audio tour exploring the beginning of Seamus Heaney's career and the timeline of his life. This audio can be used when visiting the exhibition in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.2020-07-3001 min
Two Thousand and Fifty Miles of Poetry5. Sylvia Plath and Seamus HeaneyCharlie and Lee return for another week of poetic wonder, this time reading poems by Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. They discuss the joy of youth, Lee's love/hate relationship with Seamus Heaney (which seems to develop throughout the episode) and how lovely Faber and Faber's books are!Links and Notes:Seamus Heaney reading Blackberry Picking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBK5_zLwJYSylvia Plath reading in 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqIhR4QIweQCollected Poems by Sylvia Plath, published by Faber and Faber: https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571118380-collected-poems.htmlDeath of...2020-05-1400 minTwo Thousand and Fifty Miles of Poetry5. Sylvia Plath and Seamus HeaneyCharlie and Lee return for another week of poetic wonder, this time reading poems by Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. They discuss the joy of youth, Lee's love/hate relationship with Seamus Heaney (which seems to develop throughout the episode) and how lovely Faber and Faber's books are!Links and Notes:Seamus Heaney reading Blackberry Picking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBK5_zLwJYSylvia Plath reading in 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqIhR4QIweQCollected Poems by Sylvia Plath, published by Faber and Faber: https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571118380-collected-poems.htmlDeath of...2020-05-1451 min
Erlebnis Irland - Reisen und Reisetipps mit Chris und FeeZu Besuch im Seamus Heaney Homeplace BellaghyReisetipps für Fotografen und alle Irlandbegeisterte
Der Besuch beim Seanmus Heaney Homeplace
Der Besuch des Seamus Heaney Homeplace führt auf eine Reise durch das Leben und die Literatur von Seamus Heaney, einem der wichtigsten und bekanntesten irischen Schriftstellern.
Es handelt sich um eine interaktive Ausstellung. Voll gepackt mit persönlichen Erinnerungen, Fotografieren, Interviews und von ihm selbst vorgetragener Gedichte.
Mit vielen Informationen die Personen, die ihn inspirierten: Seine Eltern, seine Frau, sein Bruder, seine Kinder, die Enkel oder der Familienhund Carlo aber auch das bäuerliche Umfeld oder die Schmiede.
Vo...2020-02-2849 min
Irish Film Institute PodcastSeamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens Q&AA screening of new documentary Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens was followed by a Q&A with Adam Low and Catherine and Marie Heaney, hosted by Prof Margaret Kelleher.
Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on the 2nd of December 2019.2019-12-0324 min
FestCast by Cheltenham FestivalsSeamus Heaney - The Cheltenham Lecture 'Learning From Eliot' at Cheltenham Literature Festival 1988Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is widely recognised as one of the major poets of the 20th-century and was described by Richard Lowell as 'the most important Irish poet since Yeats'. In this special recording at the 1988 Cheltenham Literature Festival, Seamus Heaney discussed the influence T.S. Eliot had on his writing in his Cheltenham Lecture 'Learning From Eliot'. Chaired by Alan Hancox. A special thanks to Faber & Faber for this podcast, the great publishing house is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year, visit faber.co.uk for more information. Tickets for the 2019...2019-09-0600 min
Close Talking: A Poetry PodcastEpisode #044 Blackberry-Picking - Seamus HeaneyConnor and Jack go on a mid-summer romp in the blackberry patch for a discussion of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry-Picking." Along the way they discuss the poem's accessibility to a variety of audiences, Heaney's ability to create sonically perfect moments, and the meaning of the word "crepuscular." They also take time to marvel at Heaney's overall mastery of all things poetic and the way he uses all of the tools in his poet's toolbox to make the poem both more complex and more easily understandable.
More on Seamus Heaney, here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/seamus-heaney
More on Heaney's relationship to...2018-08-1140 min
WriteStuffPresident Michael D. Higgins at The Opening of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now AgainThis podcast features interviews with President Michael D. Higgins and Professor Geraldine Higgins at the opening of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, a new exhibition featuring Heaney’s archives at the new Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre. President Higgins opened the exhibition and we feature excerpts from his speech at the event here in addition to an interview with the President as well as the curator of the exhibition. Listen Now Again opens on Friday, 6th July, and members of the public will be able to visit Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 4pm. In addition, the exhibition wi...2018-07-0610 min
The Poetry Exchange23. A Kite For Aibhín By Seamus Heaney - A Friend to FionaIn this episode you will hear the founder and co-host of The Poetry Exchange, Fiona Bennett talking about the poem that has been a friend to her - 'A Kite for Aibhín' by Seamus Heaney.Fiona founded The Poetry Exchange in 2014 and it is wonderful to hear her in the guest's chair, talking about a poem that means so much to her. You can discover more about Seamus Heaney's work here: www.seamusheaneyhome.com. 'A Kite for Aibhín' can be found in 'Human Chain' by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber & Faber, 2010. Ou...2018-04-1724 minThe Poetry Exchange23. A Kite For Aibhín By Seamus Heaney - A Friend to FionaIn this episode you will hear the founder and co-host of The Poetry Exchange, Fiona Bennett talking about the poem that has been a friend to her - 'A Kite for Aibhín' by Seamus Heaney.Fiona founded The Poetry Exchange in 2014 and it is wonderful to hear her in the guest's chair, talking about a poem that means so much to her. You can discover more about Seamus Heaney's work here: www.seamusheaneyhome.com. 'A Kite for Aibhín' can be found in 'Human Chain' by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber & Faber, 2010. Ou...2018-04-1724 min
The EssaySeamus Heaney's 'The Underground'Don Paterson is an award-winning poet, editor and teacher, but for all his technical ability and the recognition that has been paid to his work Paterson is acutely aware of awe and sometimes envy when he looks at the work of other writers. Here he applies his wit and skills of technical analysis to discussing the five poems he wishes he had written.
Tonight, Seamus Heaney's 'The Underground' .The UndergroundThere we were in the vaulted tunnel running,
You in your going-away coat speeding ahead
And me, me then like a fleet god gaining
Upon...2017-09-2613 min
nearfmPoem of the Week #2 – 'Digging' by Seamus HeaneyPoem of the Week #2 to commemorate the Good Friday agreement, is Digging by Seamus Heaney and read by ER Murray.
Produced and presented by Morgan O’Reilly and Near FM. Poem of the Week is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee. Thanks to Dublin City Council for their promotional support towards the project.
About the series
Poem of the Week invites you to listen to contributors recite some of their favorite poems and talk about what these poems mean to them. Featuring some of Ireland’s most exciting new voices such as J...2017-05-2910 min
Open CountryBellaghy - Seamus Heaney's HomeplaceSeamus Heaney grew up in Bellaghy in Northern Ireland and his poetry features many of the people who lived there and the views he saw there. Helen Mark visits Bellaghy to discover the real places which inspired so many well loved words and meets the people who live there to find out what Heaney's work means to them.2016-09-0824 min
ME READING STUFFSeamus Heaney - The BirthplaceWALK ON AIR AGAINST YOUR BETTER JUDGEMENT LINKS:Buy Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground here: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/opened-ground-selected-poems-1966-1996_seamus-heaney/261559/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwo5--BRCS8ceLjv-XppUBEiQAGp15ELizYkaXkyPIY2qkzE1xHV9_IDw7mTaMwHUnsRvRBxwaAhLs8P8HAQ#isbn=0374526788&pcrid=70112866032&pkw=&pmt=&plc=Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas (my opening is November 12th): http://www.talleydunn.com2016-09-0109 min
How to Discover Free Audiobook in Drama & Poetry, PoetryAeneid by Seamus Heaney | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Aeneid
Author: Seamus Heaney
Narrator: Ian McKellen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-06-16
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Summary:
The sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father, is a story that captivated Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a special significance for him after the death of his own father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an adult.
His noble and moving...2016-05-061h 15
PopcastSeamus Heaney and the Long DeadHow do you write a love poem to a 2,000 year old stranger? On Popcast, hear about Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney's obsession with "bog bodies." These centuries-old human remains were found in boglands of Northern Europe, and were often killed in violent, ritualistic ways – something that resonated with Heaney, living in war-torn Belfast. Bioarcheologist Andrew Chamberlain and Heaney scholar Stephen Enniss of the University of Texas at Austin weigh in on the science and symbolism of bog bodies in Heaney's work.
This week's Popcast was produced by Audrey McGlinchy, a writer and radio journalist based in Austin, Texas. The archival au...2015-08-2400 min
Discover Most Popular Audiobooks in Drama & Poetry, PoetryNew Selected Poems Audiobook by Seamus HeaneyListen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go tohttp://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: New Selected Poems
Author: Seamus Heaney
Narrator: Seamus Heaney
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-14
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
The landmark selection of poems from the greatest poet of our age, read on audio by Seamus Heaney himself.
'His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived...2014-10-302h 31How to Discover Free Audiobook in Drama & Poetry, PoetryNew Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: New Selected Poems
Author: Seamus Heaney
Narrator: Seamus Heaney
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-14
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Summary:
The landmark selection of poems from the greatest poet of our age, read on audio by Seamus Heaney himself.
'His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' (John Banville)
'More than...2014-10-302h 31
Front Row: Archive 2013Seamus Heaney tributeMark Lawson reflects on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, whose death was announced today. Writers including Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee consider Seamus Heaney's long writing career, and there's another chance to hear part of a special Front Row interview, recorded before an audience on the occasion of his 70th birthday.Producer Stephen Hughes.2013-08-3028 min
Humanities SeriesHumanities: The Isle is Full of Noises - Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'LearyThe Isle is Full of Noises
Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'Leary
Thursday, 2 February 2012, St. Ann's Church
On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people.
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The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or impli...2013-06-1257 minThe Royal Irish AcademyHumanities: The Isle is Full of Noises - Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'LearyThe Isle is Full of Noises
Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'Leary
Thursday, 2 February 2012, St. Ann's Church
On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people.
www.ria.ie
Disclaimer:
The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or impli...2013-06-1257 min
Humanities SeriesHumanities: The Isle is Full of Noises - Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'LearyThe Isle is Full of Noises
Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'Leary
Thursday, 2 February 2012, St. Ann's Church
On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people.
www.ria.ie
Disclaimer:
The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or impli...2013-06-1200 min
How to Listen to Audiobook in Classics, European LiteratureBeowulf by Seamus Heaney (translator) | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Beowulf
Author: Seamus Heaney (translator)
Narrator: George Guidall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-13
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Classics, European Literature
Summary:
Written a thousand years ago, this long poem is the very first surviving piece of English literature. Join Beowulf, a young warrior, as he achieves glory by fighting and killing three fantastic monsters. This new translation, by the Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney, offers modern listeners an accessible, intensely dramatic text. It amply demonstrates why this epic has spread its influence...2013-01-114h 08