HARP DAY ANTRIM

Saturday 18 October, 1.15pm
Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast

Heaney’s Irish language translations through the lens of the Irish music tradition. From Buile Shuibhne (Sweeney Astray), the medieval tale of the mad bird-king of Antrim’s Dál nAraidhe, to his favourite song An Bonnán Buí (The Yellow Bittern), Heaney found fertile soil for his imagination in the songs and stories of his ancestors.
Aoibheann Devlin, Déaglán Ó Doibhlin and Sorcha Uí Chuireáin presented lore, song, poetry and music on fiddle and medieval wire-strung Gaelic harp. All three are members of the group Lí Ban and hail from the shores of Heaney’s beloved Lough Beg.