You are invited to join us at the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition for an exploration on the influence of the classics on the works of Seamus Heaney.

While Heaney’s poetry tended to be rooted in the sense of place, identity, and memory, the classics were intertwined in much of his most celebrated works as a poet and literary translator. In his treatment of the classics, Heaney treated ancient texts as a guide for us to locate ourselves in cultural and geographical space.

This talk will examine Heaney’s literary translations of the ancient Greek playwright, Sophocles, and the Roman Poet, Virgil. Heaney reminds us that tragedy, the breakdown of the moral order, and memory has been part of the human condition for millennia.

Note: Booking essential.