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Online Book Club | Wintering Out

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Location Online via Zoom
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Price Free. Booking Required.
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Location Online via Zoom
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image of seamus heaney's poetry collection wintering out
Online

Join us on Zoom for a chat about this month's poetry collection, 'Wintering Out', by Seamus Heaney

This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!

There will be an opportunity to read our favourite poems from this collection, chat about themes and inspirations and ask questions about anything we didn't understand.

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

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Online Tour | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

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  • Irish Sign Language Interpreted
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Location Online via Zoom
Category Event Tour
Price Free. Booking Required.
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Location Online via Zoom
Category Event Tour
Price Free. Booking Required.
seamus heaney deep in thought at his desk
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Join our exhibition guides for a virtual tour of 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again'

Enjoy a fascinating journey exploring the highlights of Heaney's archive, from his rural origins through to his remarkable career as a poet

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

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Bloomsday

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Location National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin, D02 P638
Category Event
Price Free. No booking required!
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Location National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin, D02 P638
Category Event
Price Free. No booking required!
Pen and ink drawings of various readers in the National Library of Ireland. Initialled by the artist G.A.D, date unknown . PD 3095 TX 2.

Pen and ink drawings of various readers in the National Library of Ireland. Initialled by the artist G.A.D, date unknown . PD 3095 TX 2.

In Person

Celebrate Bloomsday with a visit to the iconic Main Reading Room.

Bloomsday celebrates the 16th of June 1904, the day depicted in James Joyce’s world famous novel Ulysses, and is named after the book’s central character Leopold Bloom. The National Library of Ireland celebrates our connection to Ulysses and James Joyce every year. The National Library and its beautiful Reading Room featured in Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis of Ulysses, in which Leopold Bloom visits the library between approximately 2pm and 3pm. 

The Main Reading Room will be open to the public on Bloomsday between 5pm and 7:30pm. NLI staff member Aryton O’Brien will be reading passages from Ulysses in the Reading Room at 5:30pm, 6pm, and 6:30pm.

No advance booking is required.

 

More Joyce Activities |

For more of the festivities, join us at the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Westmoreland Street for a special Bloomsday tour, Now Strike Your Note, on Saturday 14th June at 1pm to discover all the indelible connections between these two masters of the pen. 

The NLI also looks forward to participating in the Bloomsday Passport, more information will be posted closer to the date.

If we can be of further assistance, please contact us at learning@nli.ie

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Singing Yeats!

With Irish Balladeer Enda Reilly.
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Location National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin, D02 P638
Category Event
Price Free
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Location National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin, D02 P638
Category Event
Price Free
Manuscript Fair Copy of 'The Stolen Child' by WB Yeats, MS 30, 478, Yeats Papers, National Library of Ireland

Manuscript Fair Copy of 'The Stolen Child' by WB Yeats, MS 30, 478, Yeats Papers, National Library of Ireland

In Person

Experience WB Yeats poems through song with Irish Balladeer Enda Reilly.

WB Yeats wrote for the ear. He used a psalter and recited his poetry in an almost chanting way to move it out of everyday speech into an unearthly space. Enda's interpretations of his poetry are somewhat more melodic but equally bring Yeats' words off the page and help us feel the meaning and hear the beauty of the poetry from a fresh perspective. We are delighted to welcome Enda Reilly to the NLI for this special performance in the home of the WB Yeats collection, the world’s largest collection of books, manuscripts and personal items relating to the poet.

Conclude your visit to the NLI with a special self-guided tour of our award-winning exhibition, the Life & Works of WB Yeats. Experience some of the poems sung by Enda Reilly in their original form – manuscripts written in Yeats’s own hand –  and explore the fascinating story of Yeats’s life told through the NLI’s Yeats Collection. A member of the NLI team will be on hand in the exhibition to enhance your visit.

 

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

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