Literary Belfast

“The Seamus Heaney Centre is all about becoming, bringing into being new ways of thinking and seeing; new writers and scholars give those new ways voice and personality.”

“Now, in time for our 10th anniversary, we are preparing to move to a new landmark building with potential for future growth, starting with the appointment of a distinguished international visiting chair of creative writing.”

The Irish American Partnership is proud to support the expansion of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s Unversity, particularly as it will offer a wider program of outreach and engagement for the wider community.

“This new building will represent an enormous step for The Seamus Heaney Centre, the university and literary Belfast, with an exhibition area, a venue for lectures and readings and an abundance of space for students to sit and begin to craft the words that will shape how we understand ourselves and our world in 10, 20, 50 years from now,” said Patterson.

He went on to say that as a result of these outreach projects the Seamus Heaney Centre will “more than ever be a link between the past and the future, between the city and Queen’s University, between writing here and elsewhere. A centre with Heaney at its heart – a stellar poet who excelled in other genres and forms and who never stopped enquiring – a centre where writing lives.”