Landmark international Heaney exhibition announced for Bank of Ireland, College Green
07/10/2015
Minister Humphreys announces details of exhibition for new Cultural and Heritage Centre, opening in 2017 A major international exhibition celebrating the life and work of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is planned for display at the new Cultural and Heritage Centre within Bank of Ireland’s College Green complex, it was announced today (07.10.15). The inaugural exhibition in the new space, announced by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD and Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland, Richie Boucher, is planned for 2017. Curated by the National Library of Ireland (NLI), it will celebrate the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), who was also a distinguished essayist, playwright, translator, professor, and literary critic. The exhibition will draw on the writer’s extensive literary archive, which was donated to the NLI in 2011, and on archives held by Emory University. It will feature Heaney’s original manuscripts as well as letters, unpublished works, diary entries, photographs, broadsides and multi-media recordings.
Minister Heather Humphreys, Dr Sandra Collins, Mick Heaney, Richie Boucher
Minister Heather Humphreys, Dr Sandra Collins, Mick Heaney, Richie Boucher
Minister Heather Humphreys, Dr Sandra Collins, Mick Heaney, Richie Boucher
Richie Boucher, Mick Heaney, Minister Heather Humphreys, Dr Sandra Collins
Dr Sandra Collins, Mick Heaney, Richie Boucher, Minister Heather Humphreys
