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A History of Rural Ireland seen through Heaney’s Poetry
September 27, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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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 to for poetic inspiration.
The pictures he paints for us in his poetry give us a window into a lost world of threshing and thatching, of horse ploughing and butter churning.
Join us for a trip down memory lane as we discover a history of rural life in the lines of Seamus Heaney’s poetry.
Note: If you would like to request Irish Sign Language interpretation for this event, please contact heaneyexhibition@nli.ie or text 087 721 3436.