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The Seamus Heaney HomePlace is an arts and literary centre in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It displays the life and work of Seamus Heaney. Designed by W&M Given Architects, construction began in 2015 by contractors Brendan Loughran & Sons Ltd. It opened in late September 2016. On the site originally stood a RUC barracks.
The Seamus Heaney HomePlace, in Bellaghy, is a literary and arts centre which commemorates Heaney's legacy. [119] His literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. Following an approach by Fintan O'Toole, the Heaney family authorised a biography of the poet, with access to family-held records (2017). O'Toole had been somewhat ...
Seamus Heaney, who became a Nobel Prize-winning poet, was born as the eldest of nine children at Mossbawn, his family's farm in Bellaghy. He later lived in Dublin but is buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Catholic Church, Bellaghy. The village has an arts centre dedicated to him, known as the Seamus Heaney HomePlace. The centre features talks ...
The sculpture is a reference to Heaney's poem Digging. [29] It also contained the Seamus Heaney Reference Library, however the items were moved into the newly built Seamus Heaney HomePlace in 2016. [ 30 ]
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The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
Homeplace traces its roots to the early 1900s, when Cincinnati businessman E.O. Robinson and a partner bought about 16,000 acres in Perry, Knott and Breathitt counties and began cutting the timber.
It is the final resting place of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Seamus Heaney. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also the place where IRA hunger-strikers Francis Hughes and Thomas McElwee are buried. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]