Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. This month we mark the passing of Ireland’s foremost poet, Seamus Heaney.

PROGRAMME 1: SEAMUS HEANEY: POET IN LIMBOLAND
Written and presented by Heaney himself, this reflection on Northern Ireland explores the strife caused by sectarianism in Northern Ireland. The film includes readings of ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘Mid-Term Break’ and other poems.

DIRECTOR: Derek Bentley
FILM INFO: 28 minutes, 1972, Colour

PROGRAMME 2: A CITY SOLITARY
Written by his close friend and fellow Nobel Prize winner John Hume, a then 26-year-old teacher in St Columb’s College which they had attended together as school-boys, this reflection on Heaney’s beloved Derry is handled with insight and sympathetic impartiality.

DIRECTOR: Terence McDonald
FILM INFO: 21 minutes, 1963, Black and White

These screenings take place at lunchtime on Saturdays. Please check at the IFI Box Office or our Calendar for times.

Simply book your FREE seat by contacting the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie (given that events can sell out, please note that your emailed booking requests must be confirmed by reply email from the Box Office in order to be considered valid).