Seamus Heaney with Dennis O’Driscoll, 1 October 2003

This is a brief intro to this event. The full event can be found at http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/02/16/seamus-heaney-reading/ and http://podcast.lannan.org/2010/02/16/seamus-heaney-with-dennis-odriscoll-conversation/

Seamus Heaney's poetry bears witness to Ireland's complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Heaney reads from a wide range of poems and offers easy context for the thoughts, feelings, and events behind his work, before joining in conversation with fellow poet and Irishman, Dennis O'Driscoll. You may learn more about this and other events on the Lannan website, lannan.org.