We hope delegates will be able to attend as much of the programme as possible. Please register for each day you are able to attend.

View the Schedule below. 

*NB this is a working schedule, until the final one is posted please note some details are subject to change. Once all details are confirmed a pdf will be available for download.

Thu 5 Jun 2025

3.00-4.30pm: Opening Panel 
- Dr Dane Holt, ‘North and self-elegy’
- Dr Stephen O’Neill, ‘“grown long-haired and thoughtful”: North and coming-of-age’
- Prof Eve Patten, ‘“…not from Ulster or from Mars”: North, poetry and parody’

5.30-7.00pm: Keynote lecture from Prof Nicholas Allen, ‘Heaney in the Seventies’

7.15pm-8.00pm: Readings from North, introduced by Dr Stephen Sexton

Fri 6 Jun 2025

9.00am: Coffee and Registration

9.15-11.00am: Panel One - Writing North
- Selma Mikalsen Kollstrøm, Balance and Buoyancy: Moments in the Composition Process of “Act of Union”
- Dr Adam Hanna, ‘The Pressure [...] of What Has Been Withheld’: Seamus Heaney’s North Notebooks
- Olly Colvin, ‘Heaney’s (Lines of) Flight: Geophilosophy, Geopoetics and Ethico-Aesthetic Subjectivation in Seamus Heaney’s North’
- Prof Juan Christian Pellicer, ‘The sexual drive of knowing’: North at 50

11.15-12.45pm: Panel Two - Bogs and Bodies
- Dr Ellen Howley, ‘North as Environmental Text’
- Cyrus Larcombe-Moore, ‘The Bog’s a Library: Bog-Text in Seamus Heaney’s North’
- Dr Stuart McWilliams, ‘The Impression of Archaeology’

LUNCH BREAK

1.30-3.00pm: Panel Three - North, South, East, West
- Marcella McSweeney, The Question of American Influence: Connections Between Seamus Heaney’s North and Robert Bly’s The Light Around the Body
- Dr James Little, ‘North by Northeast: Seamus Heaney’s Multidirectional Prisons’
- Sacha White, “Coming to consciousness/ by jumping in graves”: Heaney's Haunted Lyric in North’

3.15-4.45pm: Panel Four - Singing Schools
- Dr Gillian Groszewski, ‘Singing School’ at School: Primary-school student responses to Heaney’s poems and their geopolitical contexts
- Ellen Orchard, ‘Our dual citizen’: The Antagonistic Child of North
- Dr Tom Walker, ‘obscured by the bad bits”: Ciaran Carson, The Honest Ulsterman and North’

5.00-6.00pm: Roundtable with Prof Edna Longley, Dr Eamonn Hughes, Prof Leontia Flynn, and Dr Padraig Regan 

Sat 7 Jun 2025

11.00-12.00pm: Screenings from the Broadcast Collections at the Seamus Heaney Centre

1.00-3.00pm: It Goes As Follies, North edition of the SHC monthly family-friendly trad session