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Ciaran Carson: A Celebration

The Irish Literary Society is delighted to partner with The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast to produce a celebration of the life and work of Ciaran Carson, the great Belfast poet and former Director of the Centre.

Ciaran Carson was a member of Aosdana and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was one of the so-called “Belfast Group” of poets in the 1960s which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. During his career Carson published 16 volumes of poetry and also wrote a number of novels and books about traditional Irish music. He worked in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998 with responsibility for traditional music and, more latterly, literature. In October 2003 he was appointed Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast.
 

The event will be presented by the current Director of the Centre, Glenn Patterson, and will feature readings and reflections from Liam Carson, Cahal Dallat, Martina Evans, Roy Foster, Bernard O’Donoghue and others to be announced.

Dates and times
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Mon 24 Feb 2020
Where
The Bloomsbury Hotel
16-22 Great Russell Street
WC1B 3NN
London
Pricing
£10