A History of Rural Ireland seen through Heaney's Poetry
Seamus Heaney in the kitchen of his Dublin home. Taken at the kitchen table and at the dresser, Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, MS.2001.039, John J. Burns Library, Boston College,
Join us for a trip down memory lane as we discover a history of rural life in Heaney's poetry.
When Seamus Heaney began writing poetry in the 1960s, Ireland was moving into the modern era, but it was to memories of growing up on a small rural farm in the 1940s that Heaney turned for poetic inspiration. The pictures he paints for us in his poetry gives us a window into a lost world of threshing and thatching, of horse ploughing and butter churning. In celebration of Heritage Week, join us Saturday 23rd August at 11:30am for a trip down memory lane as we discover a history of rural life in the lines of Seamus Heaney’s poetry.
If our team can be of any assistance, please contact us at heaneyexhibition@nli.ie
