A few years ago I was honoured to create the naming and branding for what became Seamus Heaney HomePlace at Bellaghy. I was recently sent a copy of his 'Burns's Art Speech' which is thematically connected with - and in many ways a precursor to - the concepts he expressed in his magnificent A Birl With Burns poem. The speech was published within Robert Burns and Cultural Authority by Robert Crawford (1997).
The speech contains many glorious revelations, and an understanding of
"three languages – Irish, Elizabethan English and Ulster Scots".
Geographically, he perceived a cultural and linguistic region which straddles the North Channel -
"somewhere north of a line drawn between Berwick and Bundoran".
More thoughts to follow.
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