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Sara Keating: Heaney exhibit reflects his enduring genial public image

Various celebrations of the late Northern poet’s work present plenty of opportunities to reconnect with his life and legacy

Poet Seamus Heaney. This week marks the tenth anniversary of his death aged 74 and a new exhibition at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin is a reminder of how much his appeal was bound up in the generosity and warmth of his public image

At Listen Now Again, a permanent exhibition at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre on College Green, letters, manuscripts and printed ephemera belonging to Seamus Heaney are displayed in glass cases that lead the visitor on a visual journey through the late poet’s life.

This week marks the tenth anniversary of Heaney’s death, aged 74. The exhibition, curated by Professor Geraldine Higgins, from the National Library’s archive collection, is a reminder of how ...