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Paul Brett Lecture Theatre, Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, University of Liverpool, L7 3NY
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The Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture 2025, organised by the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, in association with The Estate of Seamus Heaney, will be delivered by historian and broadcaster Sir Simon Schama on the topic of ‘Politics and the Poet'.
The evening will open with a reading of Seamus Heaney poems by Liverpool-born actor Leanne Best.
Sir Simon Schama, CBE, FBA is Professor of Art History and History; author of 18 books translated into 20 languages, including Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, Rough Crossings, The American Future: A History, Belonging, short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations.