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Seamus Heaney ~ Edward McGuire

Seamus Heaney by Edward McGuire from the Ulster Museum Collection. This portrait of a young Seamus Heaney has beautiful detail. Echoing the Renaissance portraits, using symbols as a code to tell us more about the sitter. The birds and foliage in the background of the painting allude to Seamus Heaney’s constant themes in his poetry. Namely nature and its impact on the people surrounded by it. The homely setting of the portrait with the creased but well-ironed table cloth represents Heaney’s preoccupation with the mundane and how the divine can be seen in this ordinariness of life.

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Edward McGuire studied painting in Italy and then the Slade School of Art in London. Best known for his portraits of writers and poets. His work is imbued with a surreal still quality, which is juxtaposed with the realism used in the execution. Edward McGuire has been exhibited widely, he was elected to the RHA and also became a member of Aosdána in 1984.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was a poet, translator, teacher, and critic. During a career spanning fifty years, he became one of the most celebrated poets of his generation. While often rooted in the landscape of his native Northern Ireland, Heaney’s poetry has a universal appeal that was to find a worldwide readership. During his lifetime he was the recipient of many honours, including the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

His legacy lives on, as readers continue to enjoy and engage with his poetry, prose, drama, and translations, and through the Estate of Seamus Heaney, set up by his family to preserve and promote his work.

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