This
is the final day about the Seamus Heaney Museum and once again I am showing you
some more things that inspired his poetry. This whole room was full of photographs of things that helps his imagination to be able to write such wonderful poetry.
His school desk.
A satchel
that his uncle had given him.
Now
these words are used a lot in Northern Ireland and I wonder how many you would
know the meaning of. He used them al in his poetry.
This
might be hard to see but there was a library stocked with all his books and more
about his life and poetry. On a desk
were these writings. The one on the
right is the finished poem but you can see it make many amendments in the
draft, usually up to seven before he felt it right.
This
is the fax machine that poured forth the
news in 1995, when he was honoured to accept the Nobel Prize for literature and
read below to see how he might have been last to hear this great news.
Below,
is an excerpt from his acceptance speech when he received the honour.
Finally
this very fine portrait of Seamus, was painted by the artist and his ciose
friend Jeffrey Morgan 2 years before he died.
Jeffrey had seen an old 200 year old tree fallen in Seamus's garden so he
thought when he was looking to frame the painting, he would use the beautiful
walnut wood which he thought was a fitting tribute to their friendship. Notice,
the Bittern I mentioned to you in yesterday’s post. CLICK HERE if you missed it and CLICK HERE if you missed the part 1 post on Monday.
If
ever you come to Ireland, I recommend you visit this
museum
even you are not interested in poetry, you will not be disappointed.
Next
year we hope to take a 2 hour guided bus tour of around the countryside where
Seamus was brought up. We could not get
on it this year as it was filled with Americans and other visitors but we have
our names already down for next year so that is something to look forward to.
Many thanks for visiting the Seamus Hearney Museum with me and also thanks for all your comments
Many thanks for visiting the Seamus Hearney Museum with me and also thanks for all your comments
I am thinking aboutGreat isiting you have a great day
ReplyDeleteYes, I see the Bittern is in the painting! I only know about 3 or 4 or those words. What a very interesting place! Sad to leave!
ReplyDeleteOnly seven amendments? The man was a genius.
ReplyDeleteI knew some of the words, and others were complete mysteries.
An amazing man and I loved all the things that inspired him in the museum. I particularly enjoyed the fax machine story. Thank you for sharing these Margaret. So very interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy, they HAVE collected a lot of things for this!
ReplyDeletethe painting of this interesting man is beautiful. it is nice to see his things gathered together in one place. i remember those fax machines, they were a pain in the butt!!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful, Margaret! It would be most interesting to visit.
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