Collection on Seamus Heaney's UK Visit, 2006

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Collection on Seamus Heaney's UK Visit, 2006

2006

The Collection on Seamus Heaney's UK Visit includes an annotated copy of the commencement address given by Seamus Heaney on May 7, 2006 as well as a program, a publicity poster, and photographs from a reading he gave at Margaret I. King Building on May 5, 2006. Also of note is a photograph of Heaney with Kentucky author and poet Wendell Berry.

0.28 cubic feet (1 box): six items

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959144

University of Kentucky Libraries

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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

Berry, Wendell, 1934-....

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American author and professor. From the description of Wendell Berry postcard : to Mr. Bob DeMott, 1973 July 14. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203844 ...