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Rooted in Remembrance

A Halloween Talk on Seamus Heaney’s Poems of Remembrance
Date
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Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, D02 VR66
Category Event
Price Free
Booked Out
Date
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Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, D02 VR66
Category Event
Price Free
Booked Out
A black and white photo of Seamus Heaney's hands facing palms up on top of a book
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Join us for our Halloween talk on Seamus Heaney's poems of remembrance.

Halloween is derived from the Irish calendar or quarter day Samhain. Although today we think of Halloween as ghosts and ghouls, spooks and spirits, its roots are in remembrance. It is a liminal time where it is believed the spirits of our loved ones return to us, however briefly, and thus a time to pay tribute to the dead and acknowledge their teachings. Join folklorist Glynnis Cowley and the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition this Halloween for an exploration of Heaney’s poems of remembrance, from thoughtful elegies such as ‘The Wishing Tree’ to childhood recollections in ‘Blackberry Picking.’

If our team can be of any assistance, please contact us at heaneyexhibition@nli.ie