Seamus Heaney exhibition to draw 120,000 visitors

Up to 120,000 visitors a year are expected to attend a free exhibition of the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s original manuscripts and unpublished poems in one of Dublin’s most historic buildings.

Using an extensive literary archive donated by the Derry poet’s family, the National Library of Ireland is working towards opening the exhibition in early 2018.

It will be the first to be staged at a new cultural and heritage centre on College Green, part of the 18th-century Bank of Ireland building being made available to the State for 10 years.