The National Library of Ireland (NLI) Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again’ exhibition, at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre on College Green, celebrates the life and works of one of Ireland’s greatest writers. It has now been shortlisted for an award in the prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards.
A panel of judges drawn from the cultural sector has nominated ‘Listen Now Again’ as one of the contenders in the ‘International Project of the Year’ category.
The annual Museums + Heritage Awards
Drawing from the NLI’s Heaney archive, that was donated to the library by Heany and his family in 2011, the exhibition takes visitors on an intimate, immersive and moving journey from Heaney’s childhood in Co. Derry, through to his global renown as a remarkably popular poet.
A partnership project between the NLI, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Bank of Ireland, the exhibition opened at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin in July 2018.
75,000 visitors have visited the ‘Listen Now Again’ exhibition, which opened last summer. It has now been shortlisted alongside major international visitor destinations including the Royal Alberta Museum in Canada, the Sir John Monash Centre in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.
Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in London in May.
More information about the M+H Awards is available here: https://awards.museumsandheritage.com/
More information about ‘Listen Now Again’ and details of its events programme
