Seamus Heaney

A NOTE FROM GLENN PATTERSON, DIRECTOR OF THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE “Through our permanent staff, our visiting fellows, our brilliant students, through our friendships and partnerships, our collaborations and the chance encounters that all these elements inevitably give rise to, we will create a centre that looks out, that speaks out, and writes out confidently into the world. “A centre that welcomes in. Students, academics, our neighbours in the city, newcomers to the city, people just passing through. Lovers of Heaney, of poetry, of Belfast’s literary history. Seekers of the next generation, or those just after a few moments of quiet contemplation. “The new Seamus Heaney Centre will more than ever be a link between the past and the future, between the city and the university, between writing here and elsewhere. It will be a centre with Heaney at its heart. ”

THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE AT QUEEN’S

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