Seamus Heaney memorial lecture by poet and literary historian William J. McCormack

WILLIAM J. MC CORMACK was born outside Aughrim in Co. Wicklow in 1947. He taught at several universities before he retired in 2002 from Goldsmith College, University of London. He is the author of several critical books on W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Roger Casement amongst others, and the author of the synthetic monograph From Burke to Beckett, Ascendancy, Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History. The lecture will take place on the 16 September.

Mr McCormack is also a distinguished Irish poet and novelist who publishes under the name Hugh Maxton. His translation of the selected poems of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, was published in 1988. Mr McCormack is a member of Aosdána (the Irish Arts Academy) and the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts. He lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.

The full title of the lecture is: Towards an Understanding of Seamus Heaney, poet: Between Bartók and Robert Lowell

Date and time: 16th of September, 2016, 5:00 p.m

Venue: Grand Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1051 Budapest, Széchenyi tér 9.)

The event is free but registration is required at: szima [at] titkarsag [dot] mta [dot] hu

The event is supported by The Embassy of Ireland, Hungary

The lecture will be followed by a concert:

S. Bach –Ádám Kondor: Two Part Invention in E-major BWV 777
Haydn: Streichquartett in f-minor op. 20 no. 5 movt 1
Eberhardt Wüllner: 14 Geistliche Lieder (excerpts)
S. Bach: Zerfliesse mein Herze – soprano air from the St John Passion
Haydn: Folksong Arrangements of Irish, Scottish and Welsh Songs
The Willow Hymn (Yr helyg gan) Hob. XXXIb:47
Llwyn onn (The Ash Grove) Hob. XXXIb:7
Dafyddy Garreg-wen (David of the White Rock) Hob. XXXIb:4
The Parson Boasts of Mild Ale Hob. XXXIb:67
Dukay Barnabás: Mist Hovering over the Face of the Deep

The concert will be performed by the Qaartsiluni Ensemble:

Adrienne Wagner, soprano
László Kéringer, tenor
Anna Rákóczy, flute
Anikó Varga, English horn
Bálint Várai, violin
Mikola Román, violin
Dénes Ludmány, viola
Balázs Kántor, violincello
Dóra Pétery, harpsichord
Artistic director Lajos Rozmán

The event is followed by a gathering at Jack Doyle’s Irish Bar, V. Pilvax köz 1-3.