Seamus Heaney: World into Word

Heaney left home for boarding-school at the age of twelve and was never again to live full-time on his family farm, yet he would draw on his vivid childhood memories of Mossbawn throughout his career. In celebration of Heaney’s birthday, join us at the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Saturday 12th April at 12pm for a lecture by Professor Nicholas Grene in an examination of the blend between Heaney's reading, observations and inspiration in the making of his poems; how Heaney's world became word.

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, a former Senior Fellow of the College where he served three terms as Head of the English Department. He has been an invited lecturer in many countries and visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Dartmouth and the Sorbonne. His books include Shakespeare’s Tragic Imagination (1992), The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays (2002) Yeats's Poetic Codes (2008), Home on the Stage (2014), The Theatre of Tom Murphy (2017) and Farming in Modern Irish Literature (2021). His most recent books are Irish Theatre in the Twenty-first Century and Derek Mahon: a Retrospective, co-edited with Tom Walker.