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Showing posts with label Seamus Heaney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seamus Heaney. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

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Adam Low's documentary on Seamus Heaney for Arena went out on the BBC recently, and last night at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

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The new National Library of Ireland exhibition Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again at the Bank of Ireland Cultural Centre in the centre of Dubl...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney, RIP

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'Seamus Heaney is trending on Twitter'. Not a sentence anyone could have predicted, but yesterday morning, Twitter suddenly lit ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Podcast 30: Seamus Heaney's 'Mossbawn: Sunlight'

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Our 30th podcast is one of an occasional series on poems on the Irish Leaving Certificate English course. This examines Seamus Heaney...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Seamus Heaney: a life in rhyme

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Robert McCrum has a long interview with Seamus Heaney in today's Observer magazine, called 'A Life in Rhyme':- For someone who ...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

'Death of a Naturalist'

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Pictured, our first edition copy of Seamus Heaney's first book, Death of a Naturalist , perceptively bought for the Masterman Library st...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

'A Call' by Seamus Heaney

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Our 51st Poem of the Week is Seamus Heaney's poignant 'A Call', from his 1996 collection The Spirit Level . In Chapel this mo...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Dublin Review of Books

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The spring edition of the excellent online magazine, the Dublin Review of Books , is out now here . Barra Ó Seaghdha, in his review of Step...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Seamus Heaney at 70

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Tomorrow is Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday, and our national broadcaster is really doing him proud. RTE have a superb microsite called ...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Poetry Round-up

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A reminder to all pupils that entries for this year's Peter Dix Memorial Senior Prize for Poetry (left) and Junior Poetry Prize , are d...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Books of the Year

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Many thanks to our colleague Dr Garry Bannister, Head of our Irish Department, who in a cross-curricular spirit has responded to our call fo...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

From the Republic of Conscience

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Today's Irish Times has an A2 poster marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with at the bottom Seam...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Teaching English, Spring 2008

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The latest edition of the excellent Teaching English magazine edited by Kevin McDermott (we featured this time last year ) from the SLSS En...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Haiku

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II formers in John Fanagan's class have recently been experimenting with haikus, such as Lingfan Gao - Soft are the footsteps Walking t...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Scaffolding

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The eleventh Poem of the Week is 'Scaffolding', by Seamus Heaney. Pictured, the scaffolding currently around the Cadogan Building, ...