Name: A History of Rural Ireland seen through Heaney's Poetry
Start: 2025-08-23T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-23T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

A History of Rural Ireland seen through Heaney's Poetry

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Join us for a trip down memory lane as we discover a history of rural life in Heaney's poetry.

Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

<p>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 for poetic inspiration. The pictures he paints for us in his poetry gives us a window into a lost world of threshing and thatching, of horse ploughing and butter churning. In celebration of Heritage Week, join us Saturday 23rd August at 11:30am for a trip down memory lane as we discover a history of rural life in the lines of Seamus Heaney’s poetry.</p>

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