Indexed works
Works about or by Seamus Heaney. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
By Seamus Heaney
Dr. Seamus Heaney : Commencement address : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : May 12, 1996.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 · 1997 · George S. Lensing and Weldon Thornton
Seamus Heaney's commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 12, 1996, published the following year by George S. Lensing and Weldon Thornton. Sixteen pages with a portrait. The colophon records five hundred copies printed for the university by the Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont, the first hundred signed by the poet. Thornton transcribed the text from Heaney's reading copy.
Commencement '96
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 · 1996
Excerpts from Seamus Heaney's commencement address of May 12, 1996 at the University of North Carolina, reprinted across three illustrated pages of a periodical.
ALS, 1995 [i.e., 1996] January 3
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013; Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006 · 1996
Seamus Heaney wrote this autograph letter signed to Henry Pearson on 3 January, dating it 1995 when the year was in fact 1996, as the cataloger notes. Part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at UNC. The correspondence also concerns Nobel Prizes and postage stamps.
ALS, 1996 May 26
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013; Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006 · 1996
An autograph letter signed, dated 26 May 1996, from the Irish writer Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) to Henry Pearson (1914-2006). It forms part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Commencement address, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 12, 1996, 1996.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 · 1996
The text of the commencement address that Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) gave at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 12 May 1996, eleven pages in a 28 centimeter format. The copy carries annotations by the poet. Part of the Rare Book Collection at UNC.
Seamus Heaney's remarks (edited transcript as delivered) : commencement ceremony, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 12, 1996.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 · 1996
Edited transcript, as delivered, of the remarks Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) made at the Chapel Hill commencement ceremony on 12 May 1996, five leaves accompanied by a single leaf press release. Topics include baccalaureate addresses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the commencement of 1996. In UNC's North Carolina Collection.
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"Heaney to speak at Commencement, receive degree".
1996 · ports
A brief item in the From the Hill section of a magazine announcing that Seamus Heaney would speak at the June 1996 graduation of the University of North Carolina and receive an honorary doctor of letters. A photograph accompanies the notice, and the magazine cover carries Bart Forbes's portrait of Heaney with two lines from his poem Digging.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
Seamus Heaney pays tribute to UNC
Bryan, Jay · 1996
Jay Bryan's newspaper report on Seamus Heaney's 1996 commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed on the front page and continued inside, with a portrait of the poet. The broadsheet pages measure fifty eight centimeters. Heaney had won the Nobel Prize in Literature the previous year.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
Poetry, Senator McCarthy, and me
Lensing, George S., 1943- · 2006 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in the Humanities and Human Values
George S. Lensing, who taught English at Chapel Hill, gave the E. Maynard Adams Lecture on October 8, 2006, drawing together Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney and Senator Eugene McCarthy. The Program in the Humanities and Human Values printed it in twenty five pages with a portrait. Includes poetry.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
"Time and the smell of the earth" : the life and writings of Seamus Heaney : an exhibition of materials from the Henry C. Pearson Collection
McNamara, Charles B. · 2001 · Academic Affairs Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catalog of an exhibition on the life and writings of Seamus Heaney drawn from the Henry C. Pearson Collection, prepared by Charles B. McNamara and published in 2001 by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The show drew on the university's Rare Book Collection, and the catalog carries both biography and bibliography of the Irish writer.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Exhibitions.
Seamus Heaney : articles concerning Heaney's commencement speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1996
American newspaper articles about the address Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) gave at the 1996 commencement of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, together with published versions of the speech of 12 May 1996 and a finding aid, filling one case.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
Three given honorary degrees
McCudden, Kim; Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006; Adcock, John; Graham, Billy, 1918-2018; Marcus, Rudolph A. (Rudolph Arthur), 1923- · 1996
An article profiling the three recipients of honorary degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill commencement on May 12, 1996: Billy Graham, the poet Seamus Heaney and the chemist Rudolph A. Marcus, with biographical detail on Heaney. A companion piece by John Adcock covers Henry Pearson, whose donations to the Rare Book Collection and friendship with Heaney it describes.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
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[Three photos from Seamus Heaney's 1996 visit to the Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
1996
Three color photographic prints, each about eleven by sixteen centimeters, made when the poet Seamus Heaney visited the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library during the 1996 commencement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The portraits include Thomas E. Douglass, George S. Lensing and Charles B. McNamara alongside Heaney in the portraits.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
ALS, 1995 July 25
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013; Pearson, Henry, 1914-2006 · 1995
Dated 25 July 1995, this is another autograph letter signed from Seamus Heaney to Henry Pearson, part of the Henry C. Pearson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at UNC. The letter concerns travel and description of Asturias in Spain, the Galley Press, and two of Heaney's own works, '10 Irish poets in the Abbey' and 'North'.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
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