A History of Rural Ireland seen through Heaney’s Poetry

Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Bank of Ireland Cultural & Heritage Centre Westmoreland Street, Dublin, Dublin

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...