The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast in association with Trinity College Dublin will host a three-day conference on 5-7 June 2025 to commemorate Seamus Heaney’s poetry collection North, fifty years after its publication in 1975.
- Date(s)
- June 5, 2025 - June 7, 2025
- Location
- Wolfson Lecture Theatre
- Time
- 15:00 - 17:00
The conference will run from Thu 5 – Sat 7 Jun 2025 and we hope that delegates will register to attend for all three days. To remove barriers to access, attendance and all essential materials are free but registration is essential.
All events will take place at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, 38-40 University Road, Belfast (unless otherwise stated).
Full schedule and registration links here
AT A GLANCE
Thu 5 Jun
3.00pm - Opening panel with Dr Dane Holt, Dr Stephen O'Neill and Prof Eve Patten
4.45pm - Keynote lecture 'Heaney in the Seventies' with Prof Nicholas Allen
7.00pm - North readings, introduced by Dr Stephen Sexton and special guests
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Fri 6 Jun
9.15am - 4.50pm: Academic panels throughout the day
5.00pm: Roundtable with Prof Emerita Edna Longley, Dr Eamonn Hughes, Prof Leontia Flynn, and Dr Padraig Regan
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Sat 7 Jun
11.00am - Morning talk with SHC archivist Anna Marie Cummins and Brian Leyden
1.00pm - It Goes as Follies: a North-edition of our monthy family-friendly trad session
3.00pm - Heaney in Limboland archive film screening at the Queen's Film Theatre
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