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Mindful Mondays | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

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Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Bank of Ireland Culture & Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2, College Green, Co. Dublin, D02 VR66
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Price Free. No Booking Required.
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Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Bank of Ireland Culture & Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2, College Green, Co. Dublin, D02 VR66
Category Event Tour
Price Free. No Booking Required.
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'...waiting until I was nearly fifty to credit marvels'

In the poem ‘Fosterling,’ Seamus Heaney wrote ‘me waiting until I was nearly fifty to credit marvels.’ It is easy to let life pass us by in a hurry with our day-to-day worries. Instead, Heaney asks us to stop and ‘listen now again’ to all the marvels that exist around us.  

Come and take a moment to slow down at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again for a mindful tour where we will listen and feel the words of a poet whose works ‘exalt every day miracles and the living past,’ and have the chance to mindfully listen, breathe and even perhaps write your own mindful poem.