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S h e a f B i n d e r yA set of solander boxes to safely house and protect a collection of Seamus Heaney 1st edition books. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookbinding?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookbinding</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/clamshellbox?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clamshellbox</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/solander?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solander</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/seamusheaney?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seamusheaney</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/handmade?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#handmade</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/custom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#custom</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bespoke?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bespoke</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/madeinsheffield?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#madeinsheffield</a>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig</p><p>Aly Bain, Andrew Greig &amp; Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead &amp; Aonghas MacNeacail </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NormanMacCaig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NormanMacCaig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlyBain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlyBain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AndrewGreig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewGreig</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BillyConnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillyConnolly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DouglasDunn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasDunn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AlasdairGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlasdairGray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JackieKay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JackieKay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TomLeonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomLeonard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LizLochhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LizLochhead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AonghasMacNeacail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AonghasMacNeacail</span></a></p>
⚙️ Roy Phillips<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ottawa.place/@Dianora" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Dianora</span></a></span> I like <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a>'s translation best, esp. when he slips in the odd Ulster dialect word, like 'hoke', to dig about, burrow.</p>
Stephen<p>Good night<br>by Seamus Heaney.<br> </p><p>A latch lifting, an edged cave of light</p><p>Opens across the yard. Out of the low door</p><p>They stoop in to the honeyed corridor,</p><p>Then walk straight through the wall of the dark. </p><p> </p><p>A puddle, cobble-stones, jambs and doorstep</p><p>Are set steady in a block of brightness</p><p>Till she strides in again beyond her shadows</p><p>And cancels everything behind her.</p><p> </p><p>From Wintering Out, 1972.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winter</span></a></p>
David Grayless<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1995, Irish poet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> receives the Novel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm.</p>
iamBullivant<p>On 7 December 1995 Seamus Heaney accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. He was awarded the prize for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
RanaldClouston<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FinishedReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinishedReading</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> 's translation into modern Ulster English of Beowulf, a poem dated, remarkably inexactly, to "some time between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century". The lengthy formal boasting etc isn't exactly what I'd generally read for fun, but it is a fascinating glimpse into a half remembered fantastical world. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Andrew Shields<p>Ambitious first songs and poems opening debut albums and books: Taylor Swift’s “Tim McGraw” (2006) and Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” (1966). <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TaylorSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaylorSwift</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TimMcGraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimMcGraw</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Songs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Songs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DebutAlbums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebutAlbums</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Digging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digging</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DeathOfANaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathOfANaturalist</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poems</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DebutPoetryCollections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebutPoetryCollections</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/12/ambitious-first-songs-and-poems-opening.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/12/ambitious-first-songs-and-poems-opening.html</span></a></p>
damian entwistle<p>Today's poem:</p><p>Hercules and Antaeus<br> - by Seamus Heaney</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767571516953182208/hercules-and-antaeus?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/ukdamo/767571516953</span><span class="invisible">182208/hercules-and-antaeus?source=share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/hercules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hercules</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/antaeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antaeus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/wrestle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wrestle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/combat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>combat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/topple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>topple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a></p>
David Grayless<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 2013, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a>, Irish <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), died at 74. 💐<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Seamus Heaney died on 30 August 2013 in Dublin. He was buried in his home village of Bellaghy, in the same graveyard as his parents, young brother and other family members. He texted his final words, "Noli timere" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.</p><p>Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>On the 19th May 1966 Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry "Death of a Naturalist" was published by Faber and Faber. The first poem in the book was "Digging". It also contained "Blackberry-Picking" and "Mid-Term Break".</p><p>Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishPoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DeathOfANaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathOfANaturalist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
damian entwistle<p>Today's poem:</p><p>The Otter<br> - by Seamus Heaney</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/750794453377253376/the-otter?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/ukdamo/750794453377</span><span class="invisible">253376/the-otter?source=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/otter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/lithe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lithe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/supple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/grace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/%C3%89ire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Éire</span></a> 'TuaisceartNahÉireann <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ContaeDhoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContaeDhoire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Fil%C3%ADocht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Filíocht</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gaeilge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilge</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann. </p><p>Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NorthernIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernIreland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CountyLondonderry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountyLondonderry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NobelPrizeForLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrizeForLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Ruth Mottram"The glazed foreshore and silhouetted log.<br> That rock where breakers shredded into rags,<br> The leggy birds stilted on their own legs,<br> Islands riding themselves out into the fog."<br> From <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/ThePeninsula?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePeninsula</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/SeamusHeaney?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeamusHeaney</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/OsloFjord?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OsloFjord</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/Fog?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fog</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/OsloBåd?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OsloBåd</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/SilentSunday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilentSunday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.eu/discover/tags/EasterSunday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EasterSunday</a>
damian entwistle<p>Today's poem(s)</p><p>The Blackbird of Belfast Lough</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/736215073751810048/the-blackbird-of-belfast-lough?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/ukdamo/736215073751</span><span class="invisible">810048/the-blackbird-of-belfast-lough?source=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/blackbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackbird</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belfast</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/lough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lough</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/gorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gorse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/whin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/CiaranCarson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CiaranCarson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/anonymous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anonymous</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>On 7th December 1995 Seamus Heaney accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. He was awarded the prize for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Irish Studies at QUB<p>‘If letter writing is an art form, then Seamus Heaney was one of its master practitioners. Christopher Reid’s 800-page selection from what he assures us was an “enormous output” – “I have had to cut back severely to make a book of publishable proportions” – is a trove of delights as much as it is a literary testament.’ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/08/the-letters-of-seamus-heaney-review-amazing-grace?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2023/nov</span><span class="invisible">/08/the-letters-of-seamus-heaney-review-amazing-grace?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Heaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heaney</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a></p>
damian entwistle<p>Today's poem:</p><p>Villanelle for an Anniversary<br> - by Seamus Heaney</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/727720187624898560/villanelle-for-an-anniversary?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/ukdamo/727720187624</span><span class="invisible">898560/villanelle-for-an-anniversary?source=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/JohnHarvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnHarvard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harvard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/massachussetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massachussetts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/anniversary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anniversary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/founding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>founding</span></a></p>
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