You are like a rich man entering heaven
Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again.
Seamus Heaney: ‘The Rain Stick
It’s not how you picture a Nobel prize winner delivering his collection to a national institution. “In 2011,” says Katherine McSharry, Head of Outreach at National Library of Ireland and the Project Director of this exhibition, the first to take place in the new Bank of Ireland Culture and Heritage Centre, “Seamus Heaney packed up some boxes in his home in Sandymount – he wrote in the attic of the house – took them out to the car with his son Michael, drove the car to the National Library, and carried the boxes out of the car and up the stairs, with the help of Library staff, and that’s how they became part of the National Collection.”
Ends December 2021
