‘Save Heaney Country’ campaign bids to stop road that threatens poet’s birthplace

A campaign to ‘Save Heaney Country’ has been launched to halt roadworks which threaten the poet’s birthplace.

The planned dual carriageway in Antrim, Northern Ireland (A6) will pass within 100m of the poet’s homeplace, Mossbawn — the setting for many of his poems, including Digging.

“The gentle rural Seamus Heaney landscape, inspiration to his Nobel-prize winning literature, is under an unfathomable threat,” said Dermott Hickson, who has started a petition to back the campaign.