Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection
Blog Series – Volume 4
Seamus Heaney
A literary collection owned by the late entrepreneur, local historian and supporter of the arts, Ronnie O’Gorman, was recently donated to the University of Galway. This collection, spanning three generations of the O’Gorman family, includes countless items of literary and historic value.
To read more about this donation, please see: O’GormanCollection donated to the University of Galway.
Within the collection is an excellent selection of works and poetry volumes by the acclaimed poet Seamus Heaney. This blog post will highlight some of these volumes.
Previous editions of the Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection
Poetry
Death of a Naturalist
Heaney’s first poetry collection
The Death of a Naturalist was Seamus Heaney’s first published collection of poetry. Published by Faber & Faber. Hardback and paperback editions are available in the collection. This volume includes the poems: scaffolding, digging, death of a naturalist, and at a potato digging.
Published in 1966.
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Door into the Dark
Poetry collection
Heaney’s second poetry collection. This volume is signed by the poet, Seamus Heaney. This volume of poetry includes depictions of rural Ireland and nature poetry.
Published in 1969.
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Field Work
Poetry collection
Poetry collection by Seamus Heaney featuring elegies and love poems. This volume also contains a short series of sonnets exploring individual responsibility, the artist’s commitment to art, and vulnerability of all in relation to circumstance and death.
Published in 1979
North
Poetry collection
Poetry collection by Seamus Heaney. First edition. The paperback edition featured in this collection was published alongside the hardback edition. Poems in this volume feature inspirations from mythology with Irish history and experience being combined with different parts of the Northern European experience.
Published in 1975.
Station Island
Poetry collection
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An autobiographical quest is seen in this volume as Heaney’s pilgrim explores the “growth of the poets mind”.
Published in 1984.
The Haw Lantern
Poetry collection
A collection of thirty-one poems by Seamus Heaney, including poems on the topic of loss, allegory and meditations.
Published in 1987.
Electric Light
First edition
There are two first editions of Electric Light by Seamus Heaney in the O’Gorman Collection. One copy is signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page.
Published in 2001.
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District and Circle
Poetry collection
Poetry collection featuring translated works alongside original new pieces. Themes of these poems include memory and the move to the 21st century.
Published in 2006.
The Spirit Level
Poetry collection
Poetry collection by Seamus Heaney. This collection was his ninth main collection published by Faber & Faber. This poetry collection features pieces of translation, reworkings of legends, and elegies.
Published in 1996.
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Human Chain
Seamus Heaney’s twelfth and final poetry collection
Collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney exploring continuities and solidarities, alongside mythological explorations of classics such as the decent into the Underworld in route 110. This collection also features expanded and revised versions of earlier Irish lyrical poems.
This volume is signed by the poet.
Published in 2010.
Anthologies
The Rattle Bag
Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
Poetry anthology edited and selected by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. This copy is signed and inscribed by Seamus Heaney with a note to the former owner: “To Ronnie and Ragina, rattle on! Seamus Heaney, 8.8.88.”
Published in 1982.
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Poetry anthology and history by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.
This poetry anthology provides a history and examination of poetry of the British Isles.
This volume is signed by Seamus Heaney.
Published in 1997.
Drama
Beowulf
Translated by Seamus Heaney
New translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney. Translated from the Anglo-Saxon. Epic tale of Anglo-Saxon culture, monsters and folklore.
Published in 1999.
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The Burial at Thebes
Sophocles, translated by Seamus Heaney
Translated edition by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles classic play.
Published in 2004.
Other Literature
The Government of the Tongue
The 1986 T.S. Eliot memorial lectures and other critical writings
Collection of essays by Seamus Heaney examining Irish, British, American and European poets.
Published in 1988.
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| "A Lough Neagh Sequence" |
From the Republic of Conscience
By Seamus Heaney, illustrated by John Behan
This volume was published on Human Rights Day 10 December 1985 in a single printing of 2000 copies. This piece was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International.
Published in 1985.
'Room to Rhyme'
Seamus Heaney, images by Brigid Collins
'Greatest minds lecture' delivered at the celebration of graduation at the University of Dundee, July 2003.
Published in 2004.
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Spelling it out: in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday
Limited edition publication
Spelling It Out is published first on 9 January 2009 in paperback and in a limited hardback edition of four hundred copies signed by the author of which three hundred are for sale.
Published in 2009.
Seoda ó Bhailiúchán Speisialta O’Gorman
Sraith Blaganna – Uimh. 4
Seamus Heaney
Bronnadh bailiúchán litríochta Ronnie O’Gorman, fiontraí, staraí áitiúil agus pátrún ar na healaíona a cailleadh le gairid, ar Ollscoil na Gaillimhe le déanaí. Trí ghlúin de mhuintir O’Gorman a thiomsaigh an bailiúchán seo, agus tá an iliomad míreanna ann ar cúis suntais iad ó thaobh na litríochta agus na staire de.
Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh faoin mbronntanas seo ag: Bailiúchán O’Gorman bronnta ar Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.
Tá rogha de scoth an tsaothair agus imleabhair filíochta leis an bhfile clúiteach Seamus Heaney sa bhailiúchán. Tugtar léargas sa bhlag seo ar chuid de na himleabhair seo.
Ailt roimhe seo ón tsraith blaganna Ábhair spéise ó Bhailiúchán Speisialta O’Gorman
Filíocht
Death of a Naturalist
An chéad chnuasach filíochta ó pheann Heaney
Ba é Death of a Naturalist an chéad chnuasach filíochta le Seamus Heaney. Foilsithe ag Faber & Faber. Tá eagráin faoi chlúdach crua agus faoi chlúdach bog araon sa bhailiúchán seo. San imleabhar seo, tá na dánta: 'Scaffolding', 'Digging', 'Death of a Naturalist', agus 'At a Potato Digging'.
Foilsithe in 1966.
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Door into the Dark
Cnuasach filíochta
Siod an dara cnuasach filíochta le Heaney. Tá an t-imleabhar seo sínithe ag an bhfile féin, Seamus Heaney. Tá cur síos ar shaol na tuaithe in Éirinn agus filíocht faoin nádúr sa saothar filíochta seo.
Foilsithe in 1969.
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Field Work
Cnuasach filíochta
Cnuasach filíochta le Seamus Heaney ina bhfuil marbhnaí agus dánta grá. Tá sraith ghearr soinéad san imleabhar seo freisin a scrúdaíonn freagracht an duine, dílseacht an ealaíontóra i leith na healaíne, agus leochaileacht gach duine leis an saol agus an bás.
Foilsithe in 1979.
North
Cnuasach filíochta
Cnuasach filíochta le Seamus Heaney. Céadchló. Foilsíodh an t-eagrán faoi chlúdach bog atá sa bhailiúchán seo in éineacht leis an eagrán crua. Tá inspioráid ón miotaseolaíocht le fáil sna dánta sa leabhar seo, agus stair agus eispéireas na hÉireann á gceangal le háiteanna éagsúla i dTuaisceart na hEorpa.
Foilsithe in 1975.
Station Island
Cnuasach filíochta
Bronnadh Duais Litríochta Nobel ar an saothar seo. Is aistear dírbheathaisnéiseach atá sa leabhar seo agus oilithreach Heaney ag iniúchadh 'growth of a poet's mind'.
Foilsithe in 1984.
The Haw Lantern
Cnuasach filíochta
Cnuasach de thríocha a haon dán le Seamus Heaney ina bhfuil dánta ar chaillteanas, ar an allagóire agus machnaimh.
Foilsithe in 1987.
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Electric Light
Céadchló
Tá dhá chéadchló de Electric Light le Seamus Heaney i mbailiúchán O’Gorman. Tá ceann de na cóipeanna sin sínithe ag Seamus Heaney ar an leathanach teidil.
Foilsithe in 2001.
District and Circle
Cnuasach filíochta
Cnuasach filíochta ina bhfuil saothair aistrithe taobh le bundánta nua. I measc théamaí na ndánta seo tá an chuimhne agus an t-aistriú go dtí an 21ú haois.
Foilsithe in 2006.
The Spirit Level
Cnuasach filíochta
Cnuasach filíochta le Seamus Heaney. Ba é seo an naoú mórchnuasach leis a d’fhoilsigh Faber & Faber. Tá aistriúchán ar dhánta, athleaganacha d’fhinscéalta, agus marbhnaí sa chnuasach filíochta seo.
Foilsithe in 1996.
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Human Chain
An dara cnuasach filíochta déag agus an cnuasach deireanach le Seamus Heaney
Cnuasach filíochta le Seamus Heaney ina ndéantar iniúchadh ar leanúnachas agus ar dhlúthpháirtíocht, chomh maith le hiniúchtaí miotaseolaíocha ar chlasaicigh amhail an titim le fána isteach sa domhan thíos in 'Route 110'. Tá leaganacha leathnaithe agus athleaganacha de dhánta liriciúla Éireannacha níos luaithe sa chnuasach seo freisin.
Tá an t-imleabhar seo sínithe ag an bhfile chomh maith.
Foilsithe in 2010.
Díolamaí
The Rattle Bag
In eagar ag Seamus Heaney agus Ted Hughes.
Díolaim filíochta roghnaithe agus curtha in eagar ag Seamus Heaney agus ag Ted Hughes. Tá an chóip seo sínithe agus nóta curtha leis ag Seamus Heaney chuig an té a raibh an leabhar ina sheilbh roimhe seo: “To Ronnie and Ragina, rattle on! Seamus Heaney, 8.8.88.”
Foilsithe in 1982.
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The School Bag
Díolaim filíochta agus staire le Ted Hughes agus Seamus Heaney.
Sa díolaim filíochta seo tugtar stair na filíochta in Oileáin na Breataine agus déantar an fhilíocht sin a chíoradh.
Tá an t-imleabhar seo sínithe ag Seamus Heaney.
Foilsithe in 1997.
Drámaí
Beowulf
Aistrithe ag Seamus Heaney
Aistriúchán nua ar Beowulf le Seamus Heaney. Aistrithe ón Angla-Shacsainis. Eipic ina ndéantar cur síos ar chultúr, ar arrachtaí agus ar an mbéaloideas Angla-Shacsanach.
Foilsithe in 1999.
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The Burial at Thebes
Sophocles, aistrithe ag Seamus Heaney
Aistriúchán le Seamus Heaney ar dhráma clasaiceach Sophocles.
Foilsithe in 2004.
Ábhar Litríochta Eile
The Government of the Tongue
Léachtaí cuimhneacháin T.S. Eliot 1986 agus saothar critice eile.
Bailiúchán aistí le Seamus Heaney ina ndéantar plé ar fhilí Éireannacha, Briotanacha, Meiriceánacha agus Eorpacha.
Foilsithe in 1988.
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From the Republic of Conscience
Le Seamus Heaney, maisithe ag John Behan
Foilsíodh an t-imleabhar seo ar Lá Domhanda Chearta an Duine an 10 Nollaig 1985 in aon chló amháin de 2000 cóip. Scríobhadh an píosa seo ar chuireadh ó Amnesty International.
Foilsithe in 1985.
'Room to Rhyme'
Seamus Heaney, íomhánna le Brigid Collins
Léacht 'Greatest minds' a tugadh ag ceiliúradh bronnta céime in Ollscoil Dhùn Dè, Iúil 2003.
Foilsithe in 2004.
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Spelling it out: in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday
Eagrán teoranta
Foilsíodh Spelling It Out den chéad uair an 9 Eanáir 2009 faoi chlúdach bog agus foilsíodh eagrán teoranta ceithre chéad cóip faoi chlúdach crua a bhí sínithe ag an údar agus a raibh trí chéad díobh ar díol.
Foilsithe in 2009.
