First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney
A unique celebration of Ireland’s foremost poet through conversations with his editors organised by the School of English.
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First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney is a unique celebration of Ireland’s foremost poet, co-hosted by the School of English and the National Library of Ireland’s Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition. It brings together, for the first time, the editors of the landmark Faber volumes The Translations of Seamus Heaney (2022), The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023), and The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025) to discuss their long engagement with Heaney’s writing, and Heaney’s life in publishing, in a series of conversations with leading scholars and writers.
The event will also celebrate Heaney’s many connections with Trinity, and with the School of English, and it will draw on the remarkable archive he donated to the National Library of Ireland in 2011. It will conclude with a reading from Ireland Chair of Poetry Vona Groarke, in the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre on Westmoreland Street, home to the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition.
The event is free and open to all, but reservations are essential.
For full details and tickets for the daytime events in the Trinity Long Room Hub, visit:
First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney Tickets, Saturday, November 7 • 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM | Eventbrite
Tickets for Vona Groarke’s reading must be booked separately. To reserve a place, please visit:
Vona Groarke reads at First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney Tickets, Saturday, November 7 • 6 PM - 7:30 PM | Eventbrite
First Principles: Editing Seamus Heaney is generously supported by the Dean of Research and Trinity Research, and by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin.
Picture by Cyril Byrne, courtesy of the Irish Times.
This event is run in accordance with Trinity’s Dignity and Respect policy, and its commitment to nurturing a respectful and inclusive research culture.
Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: lavanro@tcd.ie