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A Seamus Heaney illustration for a very special friend on a very special occasion.

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2022-09-20

Edward McGuire’s phenomenal 1974 portrait of Seamus Heaney is currently on loan to from 🙌

⭐️Courtauld Connections: Works from our National Partners⭐️

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2022-08-18

Edward McGuire’s phenomenal 1974 portrait of Seamus Heaney is currently on loan to from 🙌

⭐️Courtauld Connections: Works from our National Partners⭐️

Find out more 👉https://t.co/5cjA6iTesp

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2022-07-27

A little blackbird study to compliment The Blackbird by Seamus Heaney.

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2022-07-05

The life of Seamus Heaney will be remembered by his daughter Catherine Heaney and film-makers Martin Rosenbaum and Adam Low, who will provide an exclusive insight into a highly anticipated new BBC documentary into the much loved poet.

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2019-04-17

commissioned Tai-Shan Schierenberg to paint a portrait of Seamus Heaney in 2004, which led to a second painting (below) for the National Portrait Gallery. Follow to check out ‘Seamus Heaney: Truth to Life’ from 5 Oct.

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2018-09-19

They’ve taken the skeleton
Of the Great Irish Elk
Out of the peat, set it up,
An astounding crate full of air.

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2018-04-04

Portrait of poet Seamus Heaney, acrylics on canvas, July 2017

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2017-07-19