Permissions

If you would like to reproduce or quote from Seamus Heaney’s work in print, include it in an anthology, translate, perform or record it, you will need to contact Faber and Faber, who handle almost all permissions requests on behalf of the Estate of Seamus Heaney, including musical setting rights.

The best way of doing this is by visiting the Faber Permissions website, where all initial requests are logged: www.faberpermissions.com

Faber handle permissions for Extract & Quotation, Exam Use, Artwork/Exhibition, Broadcast, Amateur/Professional, Performance, Musical Settings, Photocopying, Prop Use and Reading Rights.

Should you have additional questions, you can email them: garights@faber.co.uk

Or for more contact information, visit their website:
www.faber.co.uk

For US rights, please visit the Farrar, Straus & Giroux permissions page, with contact details and an online form.

Click HERE, or visit https://us.macmillan.com/permissions-request-form
Or for more information, visit the FSG Seamus Heaney author page by clicking HERE.

Fair Dealing

There are some exceptions to this, including where the work is for research purposes or private study. For guidance on copyright usage (in Ireland), you can refer to this helpful page from the Irish Writers Centre: irishwriterscentre.ie/pages/copyright-information

Faber offer the following advice, and you can find more detailed information on their website by visiting www.faber.co.uk/fair-use:

If a publication is for a purely academic market and for 'the purposes of criticism or review', we allow:
- The quotation of 10 lines, or multiple extracts up to 25 lines, dispersed throughout your work from an individual poem without charge, providing that this does not constitute over 25 percent of the poem.
Please note, though, that to qualify as an academic publication, a book must have a total print-run of 500 or fewer in hardback, or 1,500 or fewer in paperback. Otherwise, we reserve the right to charge full Trade rates.

Thank you!