The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at

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, and named after the late

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, recipient of the 1995

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. Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and literature. It was officially opened in February 2004 and its founding director was the poet and Queen's graduate

Ciaran Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...

. Carson retired as director in 2016 and was replaced by Fran Brearton and then by

Glenn Patterson Glenn Patterson (born 1961) is a writer from Belfast, best known as a novelist. Biography Patterson was born in Belfast where he attended Methodist College Belfast. He graduated from the University of East Anglia (BA, MA), where he was a produc ...

. On 30 April 2009, it gave Heaney a 70th birthday party involving a literary evening.

First Collection Poetry Prize

The prize is awarded to a poet whose first collection of poetry has been published in the previous year by a UK- or Ireland-based publisher. It is part of the Seamus Heaney Legacy Project funded by

Atlantic Philanthropies The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) was a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focused its giving on health, social, and politically left-leaning public policy causes in Australia ...

. The winner receives £5,000 and is invited to give the Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

with travel accommodation and a $1,000 honorarium included. Previous recipients of the Prize are: * 2022 - Victoria Kennefick for ''Eat or We Both Starve'' (Carcanet 2021) * 2021 - Sumita Chakraborty for ''Arrow'' (Carcanet, 2020) * 2020 - Laura Scott for ''So Many Rooms'' (Carcanet, 2019) * 2019 - Ned Denny for ''Unearthly Toys'' (Carcanet) * 2018 - Richard Osmond for ''Useful Verses'' (Picador Poetry); * 2017 - Adam Crothers for ''Several Deer'' (Carcanet) * 2016 - Kate Miller for ''The Observances'' (Carcanet) * 2015 - Fiona Benson for ''Bright Travellers'' (Cape Poetry) * 2014 -

Tara Bergin Tara Bergin (born 1974) is an Irish poet. Career Tara Bergin was born in 1974 and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and by 2012 she was awarded her PhD from Newcastle University with a thesis on Ted Hughes’s translations of Ján ...

for ''This is Yarrow'' (Carcanet) * 2013 - Sarah Jackson for ''Pelt'' (Bloodaxe Books)

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* Poetry organizations Queen's University Belfast Irish poetry 2004 establishments in Ireland Organizations established in 2004 Irish writers' organisations {{UK-university-stub