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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

"That’s what makes tonight so special—the poems in new voices, new contexts, new lights." Catherine Heaney and poets, guests, and friends gather to read her father's work

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2019-11-02

Our team member Eoin visited the "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again" exhibition today, very timely on the anniversary of the poet's death.
Make sure to visit the exhibition organised by at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre

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2019-08-30

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.

painting by

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2018-04-04

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

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2017-07-19