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The story behind the Seamus Heaney quote guiding people through the Covid-19 crisis
‘If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere’.
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‘If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere’.
Joe Biden quoted Seamus Heaney after his Super Tuesday win in the US this week. Darach Ó Séaghdha examines Heaney’s words.
More than 4,000 free events will take place across the country on 21 September.
Tickets are free – but booking is advised for the next few days due to high demand.
Seamus Heaney and WB Yeats featured in the speeches given by the men yesterday.
Take a moment to read The Quilt, a poem by Paula Meehan taken from a new collection by Marie Heaney.
It’s for a new arts centre which will open in his name in Bellaghy.
Clue: “When all the others were away at Mass”.
‘Daddy, Daddy,’ I cried, ‘Pass out the moon,’
“And some time make the time to drive out west into County Clare…”
Everyone’s been talking about a drowning tragedy in Crete, Irish troops in the Middle East, peace, and EP.
The event was supported by his family.
Everyone’s been talking about the Irish operation in the Golan Heights, a tragic road crash in Cork, rail talks… and VERY LOUD NOISES.
Here’s a collection of art inspired by the beloved poet…
For when you want to rest the squat pen between finger and thumb and, you know, write a letter…
Culturally, these Irish writers belong to the world – but all of them saw life and used language from an Irish perspective.
Oh, Seamus, we weren’t expecting you.
There is the lack of any serious radical political or cultural response to the current crisis in Ireland, writes Ciaran McCullagh.
From Rob Ford to Enda Kenny by way of two Popes, who said what in 2013.
The Irish tweeted about everything from lapgate to Anglotapes, Seamus Heaney to the Late Late (among other things).
He (or his speechwriter) wrote an elegiac homily to the late Nobel laureate poet that evokes Heaney’s Mid-Term Break.
The bursaries help artists who have no other income to alleviate the financial pressure of pursuing their talents.
The singer-songwriter writes of his conversations with the literary great in Dublin and in Manhattan, and says there are “few poets” he would rank as Heaney’s equal.
One entry simply says: “Thank you”.
Everyone’s talking about Pat Kenny versus Sean O’Rourke and the funeral of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
Hundreds of people turned out to pay tribute to the renowned poet.
Heaney, a Derry native, had called Dublin his home for the past number of decades.
The funeral mass will be held tomorrow morning in Donnybrook.
Today everyone’s talking about the death at Electric picnic, woman found dead in Navan and 1913 Lockout.
“His lines could embody a dark, marshy melancholy, but as often as not they also communicated the wild onrushing joy of being alive.”
A Book of Condolence will also be opened on Monday in Dublin.
Everyone’s talking about the death of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and the US moving closer to military intervention in Syria.
“Between my finger and my thumb…”
In a statement this lunchtime, the Taoiseach said that Heaney “was the keeper of the language, our codes, our essence as a people”
Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
The 74-year-old poet died earlier today and tributes are flowing in.