On the eve of what would have been Seamus’s 85th birthday, we are delighted to share news of a new venture we have been working on with our friends at English PEN and Irish PEN - the PEN Heaney Prize.

We are delighted to announce the Heaney-Miłosz Residency, a brand new partnership with the Irish Embassy in Poland and Kraków Festival Office, giving a writer the opportunity to spend time in Kraków, in the Czesław Miłosz apartment

With this unprepossessing and typically modest covering letter from 1985, Seamus Heaney submitted a first draft of his renowned poem ‘From the Republic of Conscience’ to Mary Fogarty, then head of the Irish branch of Amnesty International.

The National Library of Ireland presents an online event - available for seven days from Tuesday 8 December 2020 - celebrating 30 years since the first performance of Seamus Heaney’s play, The Cure at Troy, produced by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1990.