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Seamus Heaney is one of the world's best-known poets. His work has encompassed literary criticism
and translation, and he has held prestigious teaching positions in the UK and the USA.
His poetry is uniquely popular, creating, in the words of the Nobel Academy,
"works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
Throughout his career, Seamus Heaney has appeared on radio and television to talk about his work and his life
and to read his poetry. Heaney first appeared on RTÉ on "The Late Late Show" in the 1960s when he read "Mid-Term
Break", a recording of which sadly no longer exists. In the following years, Heaney presented a number of book
and poetry programmes for the national broadcaster and was interviewed many times. The archive material presented
in this online exhibition draws on these recordings to take a look at Seamus Heaney in his own words.
Listen here to an introduction to Seamus Heaney given by fellow poet and author of "Stepping Stones"
Dennis O'Driscoll at the 2004 Poetry Now festival in Dun Laoghaire.
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