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21/12/2011
National Library Welcomes Heaney Archive
One of Ireland's foremost poets, Co Londonderry-born Seamus Heaney has today formally donated his personal literary archive to National Library of Ireland
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan jointly officiated at the hand-over of the literary papers of Irish Nobel laureate Dr Seamus Heaney to the National Library of Ireland today.
Minister Deenihan said that this donation represents a thread of continuity between writers and the Library.
Dr Heaney comes from a family background in the farming community in Northern Ireland - but actually researched, worked and wrote many of his works in the auspicious library's reading room.
Acknowledging the generosity of Dr Heaney, Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated: "This fascinating literary archive, the working papers of Ireland's greatest living writer, is a fitting addition to the National Library's manuscript collections.
"To Seamus Heaney and to Marie Heaney, and to their children Michael, Christopher and Catherine, I say thank you on behalf of the nation for ensuring that these wonderful papers become part of the national collection in the care of the National Library of Ireland."
(BMcC)
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan jointly officiated at the hand-over of the literary papers of Irish Nobel laureate Dr Seamus Heaney to the National Library of Ireland today.
Minister Deenihan said that this donation represents a thread of continuity between writers and the Library.
Dr Heaney comes from a family background in the farming community in Northern Ireland - but actually researched, worked and wrote many of his works in the auspicious library's reading room.
Acknowledging the generosity of Dr Heaney, Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated: "This fascinating literary archive, the working papers of Ireland's greatest living writer, is a fitting addition to the National Library's manuscript collections.
"To Seamus Heaney and to Marie Heaney, and to their children Michael, Christopher and Catherine, I say thank you on behalf of the nation for ensuring that these wonderful papers become part of the national collection in the care of the National Library of Ireland."
(BMcC)
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