#SeamusHeaney loved Kraków 🇵🇱 He spoke about it beautifully during the inauguration of the 2nd Meeting of the Poets, saying: 'Szymborska and Miłosz's Kraków is like Shakespeare and Marlowe's London (…)' #HeaneyPolska #HeaneyPoland
„Beacons at Bealtaine” was written by #SeamusHeaney to mark the accession of ten new countries, including 🇵🇱, to the EU on 1st May 2004 during Ireland's EU Presidency 🇮🇪. Heaney recited the poem at the Enlargement Ceremony in Dublin's Phoenix Park 🇪🇺
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In 2009 the first edition of the Czesław Miłosz Literary Festival took place in Kraków. On this occasion, #SeamusHeaney and Wisława Szymborska, his friends and fellow NobelLaureates, planted the Miłosz’s Oak. Jerzy Illg and Seamus Heaney read Miłosz's poem „Inside the Tree”📖🌳
„Ogniska w święto Beltane” to wiersz napisany przez #SeamusHeaney z okazji rozszerzenia UE o kolejne 10 krajów, w tym 🇵🇱, 1 maja 2004 roku, podczas prezydencji 🇮🇪 w Radzie UE. Heaney wyrecytował wiersz w ramach uroczystości w Phoenix Park w Dublinie 🇪🇺
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#SeamusHeaney kochał Kraków 🇵🇱 Podczas inauguracji II Spotkania Poetów w tym mieście mówił o nim takimi pięknymi słowami: „Kraków Szymborskiej i Miłosza jest jak Londyn Szekspira i Marlowe’a (…)” #HeaneyPolska #HeaneyPoland
In 1995 #SeamusHeaney and Stanisław Barańczak translated into English „Laments”, a masterpiece of the Polish literary tradition by Jan Kochanowski. Nobel Prize Laureate Czesław Miłosz hailed their work as „a rare accomplishment” 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇪 #HeaneyPoland #HeaneyPolska
W 1995 roku #SeamusHeaney wraz ze Stanisławem Barańczakiem przetłumaczyli na język angielski „Treny” Jana Kochanowskiego, arcydzieło polskiej tradycji literackiej. Polski noblista Czesław Miłosz uznał publikację za „wyjątkowe osiągnięcie” 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇪 #HeaneyPoland #HeaneyPolska
Pop-Up Talk | Seamus Heaney and Mindfulness
As part of Bealtaine Festival 2024, join Lisa at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again for a pop-up talk exploring #mindfulness in #SeamusHeaney 's writing.
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„The mixture of closely-knit friendships and commitment to poetry reminded me of Belfast in the 1960s” – said #SeamusHeaney on Kraków’s poetry scene in the book titled „Stepping Stones”. In the 📸: the poet with W. Szymborska, S. Barańczak, P. Sommer. Courtesy of J. Illg 🇵🇱🤝🇮🇪
The more in this cheering section, the better. For those who do not know, George McWhirter was an undergraduate at QUB. #SeamusHeaney & #SeamusDeane , among others, were his classmates. Here is George with Heaney, Ciaran Carson & Deirdre Shannon at the Flat Lake Festival in 2008.
„Pod koniec lat 60. przeczytałem antologię poezji 🇵🇱pod redakcją Cz. Miłosza (...) i była ona dla mnie objawieniem - dzięki poetom pozbawionym złudzeń i niezłomnym urodziłem się na nowo” – mówił #SeamusHeaney otrzymując honorowy doktorat Uniwersytet Jagielloński w 2005 r. #HeaneyPolska
Congratulations to the Winner of The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2024, Michelle Dennehy and the Runner Up, Sharon Flynn!
And to the 2 other short list poets, Maura Johnston and Clare McCotter.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council #NationalLottery #SHA2024 #SeamusHeaney
Heard this on radio sometime somewhere earlier and hae lads you'd think yer man #SeamusHeaney was describing my life... laughed and cried at same time🥰 💚🤍🧡💛❤️ 💙 💜 💖
Everyone holds such a hometown flagrance deep down. That's what makes #SeamusHeaney poem, like many of his, so utterly beautiful. This tribute by some finest light of the Irish scene honors him.
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In the year 2000 #SeamusHeaney visited Kraków and participated in the 2nd Meeting of the Poets, where he read his poem titled „St. Kevin and the Blackbird” 📖 Three years later he recorded it for the album entitled „The Poet & The Piper” 👇💿youtube.com/watch?v=-mpnoa… #HeaneyPolska
A great choice of #poetry books here Chapters Bookstore Dublin for #PoetryDayIRL 🖋💕
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„All the family will tell you,he felt a real affinity with🇵🇱”–said Chris Heaney,son of #SeamusHeaney , talking to RTÉ News 10 years after the poet’s death.Since 1994,over the course of the next 15 years Heaney would visit #Kraków seven times. #HeaneyPoland
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