Seamus Heaney Centre

Date: 5/07/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, Seminar Room 1 & 2
Category: Performance, Workshop / Seminar / Course

BBC Storytellers Listening Party

Date: 28/06/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: The Brennan Glucksman Family Reception at The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Poetry Summer School Showcase

Date: 27/06/2025
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance

Book Launch: Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley

Date: 26/06/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance

Fellows at the HomePlace

Date: 25/06/2025
Time: 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: The Helicon, Seamus Heaney HomePlace
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion, Performance

Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize

Date: 23/06/2025
Time: 7:00PM - 8:30PM
Location: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Category: Performance

BBC Storytellers Listening Party

Date: 21/06/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: The Brennan Glucksman Family Reception at The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Reading Seamus Heaney: The Spirit Level

Date: 19/06/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Lighthouse by Donovan Wylie: book launch and exhibition

Date: 18/06/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Exhibition, Interview, Social

Write Night with Jonny Hanson and MK Foster

Dates: 17/06/2025 - 18/06/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fellows at the Belfast Book Festival

Date: 12/06/2025
Time: 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: The Cube, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion, Performance

North at 50

Dates: 5/06/2025 - 7/06/2025
Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Conference / Symposium

Fulbright Presentations 2025: Alana Dagenhart and M.K. Foster

Date: 3/06/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Works in Progress: An Improv Jam

Date: 31/05/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Workshop / Seminar / Course

Words in the Air 2025

Date: 29/05/2025
Time: 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Brian Friel Theatre, University Square
Category: Performance

From the Center out: The Curb Center and its role in teaching, research and community engagement

Date: 21/05/2025
Time: 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion, University Event

Belfast and beyond: poetry reading

Date: 20/05/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Performance

Reading Seamus Heaney: Seeing Things

Date: 15/05/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Surviving as a Writer, with Jan Carson workshop 2

Date: 13/05/2025
Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Surviving as a Writer, with Jan Carson workshop 1

Date: 12/05/2025
Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Theresa Lola at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Date: 10/05/2025
Time: 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Caoilinn Hughes at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Date: 8/05/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Roisin Lanigan at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Date: 4/05/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Performance

Works in Progress: An Improv Jam

Date: 3/05/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Workshop / Seminar / Course

Ekphrasis Launch

Date: 1/05/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Ulster Museum
Category: Performance

Reading Seamus Heaney: The Haw Lantern

Date: 17/04/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Write Night presents: An Evening with Jan Carson and Sam Thompson

Date: 15/04/2025
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Happenstance with Adrian Dunbar

Date: 10/04/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Write Night presents: An Evening with Louise Nealon

Date: 8/04/2025
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Works in Progress: An Improv Jam

Date: 5/04/2025
Time: 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Workshop / Seminar / Course

Poetry in translation workshop with IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge,

Date: 4/04/2025
Time: 10:30AM - 3:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion, Masterclass, Workshop / Seminar / Course

The Seamus Heaney Centre presents ... LAND (at the Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics)

Date: 29/03/2025
Time: 2:30PM - 4:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: General / Other

Dane Holt Book Launch: Father's Father's Father

Date: 27/03/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: General / Other

Currents in Crime Fiction: Trans-Atlantic Translations

Date: 25/03/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Interview, Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Seamus Heaney: As Seen On Screen

Date: 22/03/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Film, Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Seamus Heaney Centre presents LAND (A Workshop)

Date: 22/03/2025
Time: 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Masterclass

Reading Seamus Heaney: Station Island

Date: 20/03/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Write Night presents: An Evening with The Moth Magazine

Date: 11/03/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Villanova Showcase

Date: 7/03/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Translation Day: Religion and the Female Body - plays in translation

Date: 6/03/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

PhD Poetry in Translation Panel

Date: 6/03/2025
Time: 2:45PM - 3:45PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Translation Day: Jan Carson and Clara Ministral in Conversation

Date: 6/03/2025
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Translation Day: Slim New Book: Translating Catullus

Dates: 6/03/2025 - 7/03/2025
Time: 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Translation Day: Musical Translations of Romanian Poetry

Date: 6/03/2025
Time: 10:30AM - 11:15AM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Write Night Presents: The Slow Road North book launch, with Rosie Schaap

Date: 4/03/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

In Conversation Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn

Date: 4/03/2025
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

DIY Publishing in Ireland

Date: 3/03/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Shannon Kuta Kelly: Poems in the American Bar

Date: 2/03/2025
Time: 7:00PM - 8:30PM
Location: The American Bar, Sailortown
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

It Goes As Follies: A Family-Friendly Trad Session

Date: 1/03/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
Category: Community Event

North Belfast Remembers Ciaran Carson

Date: 1/03/2025
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: St Patrick's Church, Donegall St, 199 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FL
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Reading Seamus Heaney: Field Work

Date: 20/02/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Looking at the Woman in a Bomb Blast Book Launch

Date: 19/02/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Write Night Presents: A Wild Life with Ruby Free

Date: 18/02/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Boxing Day by William Keohane

Date: 14/02/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance

The Boy from the Sea Book Launch

Date: 6/02/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Blackbird Anthology Launch

Date: 30/01/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Seamus Heaney Centre Presents... FLOW

Date: 23/01/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Performance, Social

Reading Seamus Heaney: North

Date: 16/01/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fighting Words Mentor Training: January 2025

Date: 15/01/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Training / Learning & Development

Reading Seamus Heaney: A Christmas Garland

Date: 19/12/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Wor(l)ds: literary stylistics and creative practice-research

Date: 12/12/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, 38-40 University Road
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Ekphrasis Studio Visit

Date: 12/12/2024
Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: Belfast School of Art, Ulster University
Category: Exhibition

The Seamus Heaney Centre Christmas Debate

Date: 6/12/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Ekphrasis Workshop #1

Date: 5/12/2024
Time: 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Exhibition

Here and There: Writing through Culture Shock with Shahminee Selvakannu (Workshop Three)

Date: 3/12/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38-40 University Road
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize ceremony

Date: 2/12/2024
Time: 7:00PM - 8:30PM
Location: The Great Hall at Queen's University, Belfast
Category: Performance, Social

Caroline Magennis: Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Date: 28/11/2024
Time: 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Oksana Maksymchuk: Still City

Date: 22/11/2024
Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Reading Seamus Heaney: Wintering Out

Date: 21/11/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38- 40 University Road
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Ekphrasis Gallery Tour

Date: 14/11/2024
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: Ulster Museum
Category: Exhibition

Here and There: Writing through Culture Shock with Shahminee Selvakannu (Workshop Two)

Date: 5/11/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38-40 University Road
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Poetry London Launch with Editor Niall Campbell

Date: 1/11/2024
Time: 6:45PM - 8:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: General / Other

Introduction to the Archive at the Seamus Heaney Centre

Date: 29/10/2024
Time: 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Location: Poetry Library, Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Information Event

Talking About Yerma: Shirley-Anne McMillan on Lorca and More

Date: 22/10/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Reading Seamus Heaney: Door Into The Dark

Date: 17/10/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38- 40 University Road
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Welcome to the Seamus Heaney Centre!

Date: 10/10/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Social

Astray in a New World: Representations of Madness in Indian and Irish Literature

Date: 4/10/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Here and There: Writing through Culture Shock with Shahminee Selvakannu (Workshop One)

Date: 1/10/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38-40 University Road
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Reading Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist

Date: 19/09/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre, 38- 40 University Road
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Digital Public History: Exploring Difficult Histories through Video Games

Date: 13/09/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #6

Date: 31/08/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #5

Date: 24/08/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

Faerie Press Book Launch: Hide & Seek, An Anthology of the Inner Child

Date: 17/08/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #4

Date: 17/08/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #3

Date: 10/08/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

Drift: Writing the River with Alice Malseed and Stephen Connolly (Day Two)

Date: 10/08/2024
Time: 10:45AM - 2:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre (meeting point to be emailed to participants)
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #2

Date: 3/08/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

BBC Storytellers Listening Party #1

Date: 27/07/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Community Event

Drift: Writing the River with Alice Malseed and Stephen Connolly (Day One)

Date: 27/07/2024
Time: 12:45PM - 4:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre (meeting point to be emailed to participants)
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

First Collection Poetry Prize Award Night

Date: 27/06/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Category: Performance

IMRAM: The Discovery Lectures

Date: 26/06/2024
Time: 10:30AM - 4:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
Category: Training / Learning & Development, Workshop / Seminar / Course

Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture

Date: 25/06/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Door into the Light: A Seamus Heaney Walking Tour

Date: 20/06/2024
Time: 11:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: Meeting Point to Follow
Category: Performance, Social

Ekphrasis Project 2024: Nowhere Bound Pamphlet Launch

Date: 6/06/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast
Category: General / Other

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