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Summer 2021 Bulletin

Online: Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney at a turf bog in Bellaghy with his father’s coat, hat, and walking stick, 1986. Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

The Ƶ celebrated Seamus Heaney’s birthday by sharing an audio recording of him reading “From the Frontier of Writing” and linking to a compete recording and transcript from his visit to the Ƶ in 1987.

In the words of poet and Ƶ Member Henri Cole, who listened to the recording, “After two words, his voice brings him back to life.” 
 

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