More than a Birler for Burns: Seamus Heaney’s Ulster-Scots Poetry. Dr Frank Ferguson (UU)

Seamus Heaney was perhaps one of the most famous poets in the world in the last one hundred years. His accomplishment is revered globally as a Nobel Prize winning poet, critic and commentator. Less well known is the engagement that his work has with Ulster-Scots literature and language. In this talk, Dr Frank Ferguson (Ulster University) will explore Heaney’s long affiliation with Scots and Ulster-Scots literary forms, writing and language. He will argue that rediscovering Heaney’s Ulster-Scots side provides a new and exciting way of comprehending his literary achievement and highlights the significant and overlooked wider impact of the language and literary tradition upon Northern Irish writing, culture and communities.

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