On Seamus Heaney

Professor R. F. Foster joins Catherine Heaney to discuss his book 'On Seamus Heaney'. Introduced by His Excellency, Adrian O'Neill, Ambassador of Ireland to the United Kingdom. Recorded 8 October 2020 at the Seamus Heaney Library in the Bloomsbury Hotel, London. R. F. Foster is the Vice President of the Irish Literary Society, Seamus Heaney was our President for many years up to his death in 2013. Foster's book 'On Heaney' is published by Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174372/on-seamus-heaney

0:00 - Ambassador O'Neill introduces discussion.
4:19 - Roy Foster on the form of his book.
6:08 - Living and archival sources.
8:00 - Biography in literary text
9:50 - Good fortune.
12:30 - Catherine Heaney reads 'The Skylight'.
14:20 - 'Stepping Stones' and autobiography.
17:50 - Speaking for the tribe.
23:20 - Early life and work.
28:30 - Yeats as an example.
34:10 - Recognition.
35:30 - On evasion: Wicklow, Carson...
40:50 - North.
42:20 - On the English tradition.
45:30 - London, The Bloomsbury and the underground.
48:20 - Roy Foster reads 'Route 101'.
51:40 - End.

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