Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia

7th Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture

2020. szeptember 17.

The Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts

cordially invites you to join the 7th

SEAMUS HEANEY Memorial Lecture

via Zoom video conferencing by

Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Seamus Heaney’s official biographer,

political and cultural commentator, literary critics, author, columnist of The Irish Times

Winner of the European Press Prize (2017)

NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year (2018)

Recipient of Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Queen’s University, Belfast and Trinitiy College Dublin

6.00pm, Thursday, 1st October 2020

Programme:

6.00 pm The speaker and the registered guests join the online lecture

6.15 Győző Ferencz

Executive President of the Széchenyi Academy

says greeting words from the Lecture Hall at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

6.20 H.E. Ronan Gargan

Ambassador of Ireland to Hungary says greeting words

6.30-7.10 Fintan O'Toole’s online lecture: Heaney, Time and History

7.10-7.40 Questions and comments

The event also features the opening of the National Library of Ireland (Dublin) exhibition of Seamus Heaney ‘Listen Now Again’

The event has been supported by The Embassy of Ireland, Hungary

Please register your participation at this link for the invitation by 27th September.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seamus-heaney-memorial-lecture-2020-registration-121161556477

This is an English language programme

Zoom details will be sent to those who had registered closer to the event.