Honouring Heaney

You could say it was the twinkle in his eye, his default Ulster earthiness, or the armchair-by-the-Aga warmth in his voice that made Seamus Heaney such a loved Irishman but, as anyone beguiled, seduced or challenged by his poetry will admit, our relationship with the great poet runs far, far deeper.

It is based on all of those embracing, amicable human things but his work, his maps of who and how we are, cement that relationship in an almost unique way.