Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I mentioned, this venue will open to the public on 6 July next. The Deputy will appreciate that organising something of this significant nature involved the collation of archival records as well as the Seamus Heaney collection. I thank his family for the work involved. A great deal of work, including work on the building, has had to be done to put an exhibition of this size together and bring it to the public. Expressions of interest were called for in 2014 to animate the centre. Submissions were received from a number of institutions and organisations. An expert selection committee was established to examine the submissions. The National Library of Ireland was selected for its proposal to curate an exhibition on the life and works of Seamus Heaney. As I have said, the exhibition is based on the literary archives which were donated to the library by Seamus Heaney and his family in 2011. The exhibition, which is entitled "Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again", is curated by the National Library of Ireland and by Professor Geraldine Higgins, who previously curated Emory University's successful Heaney exhibition, "The Music of What Happens", which celebrated the life and work of the great Nobel Prize-winning poet.

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