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Join us on Sat 17 May for a special lecture and drawing session with Kenneth Donfield of @ncad_dublin on the great drawings of Irish Artists, including Jack B. Yeats & Mary Swanzy. To reserve your place, see: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev… #NationalDrawingDay #ListenNowAgain #IrishArt

Join Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Zoom for a chat about this month's poetry collection, 'Wintering Out', by #SeamusHeaney 📆 Friday, 30 May at 1pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev… This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!

Today is International Day of Families and what better way to celebrate the day than by reading some of Seamus Heaney’s poems about his own family?! Heaney explored family love throughout each of his twelve poetry collections. #InternationalDayofFamilies #NLI #SeamusHeaney

As this year’s International Literature Festival Dublin gets underway today, we’re reflecting on the power of poetry. What better time to visit the exhibition and immerse yourself in Heaney’s extraordinary life and work?! #ilfd25 #DublinEvents #NLI #poetry #SeamusHeaney

A huge thank you to @kennethdonfield of @ncad_dublin for joining us for an inspiring lecture on the Great Drawings of Irish Artists, and a still-life drawing session. We were delighted to see such a great turnout for the event and the beautiful finished drawings in our Rotunda.

Today we are celebrating the 59th anniversary of the publication of Heaney’s first poetry collection #OnThisDay in 1966. In the exhibition, we have the actual letter where Heaney learnt of the exact publication date and that he would be paid 18 shillings. #SeamusHeaney #NLI

As we continue to mourn the passing of Paul Durcan, one of Ireland’s most renowned contemporary poets, we are reflecting on the mutual admiration he shared with Seamus Heaney. #NLI #SeamusHeaney

These lines have been taken from Heaney’s dear friend and fellow poet, Michael Longley’s review of his first collection, Death of a Naturalist. The article was published #OnThisDay in 1966. #SeamusHeaney #NLI #MichaelLongley #ListenNowAgain

-----------Bank Holiday Opening Hours----------- We will be closed this Monday, 2nd June but will re-open on Tuesday, the 3rd June at 10am. Regular hours will apply. Wishing you all an enjoyable and restful bank holiday weekend. #SeamusHeaney #ListenNowAgain #NLI

Welcome to June! Here are our upcoming events. Our Bloomsday tour, Now Strike Your Note is currently booked out but keep an eye on our website closer to the date as tickets may become available. See nli.ie for further details on each event and booking information

Even though Seamus Heaney’s poems are not on the Leaving Cert curriculum this year, we would still like to wish students from both school years all the best and remind them of the importance of ‘keeping going’. The next few weeks are purely stepping stones to greater things.

Today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of #WBYeats in Sandymount, Dublin #OnThisDay in 1865. Heaney greatly admired him and published his selection of Yeats’ poems in 2000. Why not pick up a copy from our exhibition shop & explore the work of one of Ireland's greatest poets?

Ahead of #Bloomsday on Monday, we explored the connection between Seamus Heaney and James Joyce during today’s tour. Why not pick up a #Bloomsday passport and explore the Ulysses locations around Dublin with a special stamp at each stop along the trail. #nli #Dublin

Happy #FathersDay everyone! Today we’re celebrating by taking a look at this beautiful poem which conveys the love he had for his father. We hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

A revised version of Heaney and Polish poet and academic Stan Baránczak’s translation of Laments by the 16th Century Polish poet, Jan Kochanowski was published #OnThisDay in 2009. This quote conveys the poet's grief after losing his young daughter, Ursula.

Online Book Club | The Bog People In celebration of #InternationalBogDay, join Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again on Zoom for a special book club on 'The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved' by P.V. Glob. 📅 Friday, 25 July at 1pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

Bogland: Between the Sights of the Sun ☀️ Join us in a celebration of #InternationalBogDay and our boglands at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again 📅 Saturday, 26 July at 12pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

Today we are celebrating the🎉7th Anniversary🎉of the exhibition launch! We continue to welcome people from all over the world who leave inspired by Seamus Heaney’s words. This quote is from an event marking his donation of his archive to the National Library of Ireland in 2011.

In a BBC interview with John Edwards in 1980, Heaney described how much things have changed on the land over the years. Mechanisations altered the rhythm of life from the 1940s which was ‘almost a medieval rhythm’. A photograph by Hughie O’Donoghue inspired the poem.