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

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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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❗️2 DAYS LEFT to see THE EVOLUTION OF ENT-: QX's ⁠by Libby Heaney ⁠ ❗️

📖Read Aisling Murray's Dualities and Pluralities text and Daniel Cavalcanti's Quantum Glossary⁠

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T. P. Flanagan at Lissadell

Seamus Heaney on TP: "Through his childhood connections with Lissadell and the Yeats country and because he had written poems of his own before we had met, Terry brought a romantic even bohemian element into play wherever he went".

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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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The way we are living,
Timorous or Bold ..
Will have been our life.

Seamus Heaney

🎨 Matt Talbert

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Longley, Friel, Hewitt & Heaney. How blessed are we that these men of literature, are of us. Heaney & Longley portraits by ⁦⁩ while Basil Blackshaw painted Hewitt & Friel. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦

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

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'Ulster Fairytales and Legends'.

Authors: Peter Heaney & . Illustrator: . Publisher: .

Looks wonderful! One legend from each county of Ulster!

Watch Peter read an extract of The Red Hand of Ulster, in the link: https://t.co/z9OkihVj3P

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'Amy Lane', part 2, oil on paper by Hayleigh Heaney-Jones, yr 14 Fine Art student👌🎨

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The Seamus Heaney Centre Presents... BOO! Poetry, prose and drama to celebrate the launch of 'The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland'.
Just a few tickets left for this free event tomorrow at 7, Crescent Arts.
https://t.co/p6EGLCup8z

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”The hero observed that swamp-thing from hell,
the tarn-hag in all her terrible strength,
then heaved his war-sword and swung his arm:
the decorated blade came down ringing
and singing on her head.”
—Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf 🖼 J. R. Skelton

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Seamus Heaney died on this day in 2013. The best of the many amazing wordsmiths who have come from our country.

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Clive Hicks-Jenkins returns repeatedly to the theme of Saint Kevin and the Blackbird using the Seamus Heaney poem as inspiration, allowing interpretations to drift freely. In his most recent the Saint cradles the bird while taking his tea.

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And this shows how 'relative' caricatures are - This is what Google gives for Seamus Heaney; even the better ones hardly seem to be of the same man.

He was a tough nut to crack, and I had to sketch him both semi-realistic and almost abstract, then find a middle ground.

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Only 4 days until the deadline! 💥

There is still time to be considered for the Heaney Scholarship worth £10,000 for an international student on the MA in Poetry. You have until ~15 June 2021~ to apply to the programme + be considered for the award - link in our bio

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This week is and today’s theme is Here are the brilliant pictures created by Méabh, Ella, Ava and Kristian from in response to Seamus Heaney’s poetry.

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Happy Feast of St. Colmcille!
And thank you Derry for him, for John Hume, Seamus Heaney and the Undertones
What a city
An angel on every oak leaf

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