London Launch of Seamus Heaney and Catholicism (CUP 2025)
Join Author Gary Wade in conversation with former Field Day Theatre Company Manager Gary McKeone for the London Launch of “Seamus Heaney and Catholicism.”
An evening of conversation, discussion and poetry at the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith celebrating one of Ireland’s Greatest writers.
Doors: 7pm; Starts: 7.30pm
Tickets: £8
Gary McKeone
Gary McKeone was Literature Director at Arts Council England from 1995-2006. Before that he worked with Field Day Theatre Company in Ireland and at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank. Originally from Derry, N.Ireland, he was educated at St Columb’s College and Trinity College Dublin. Gary is currently Warden at St George’s House, Windsor Castle
Gary Wade
Gary Wade holds an adjunct role at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is the author ofSeamus Heaney and Catholicism(CUP 2025) and is currently working onThe Cambridge Introduction to Seamus Heaney. He is one of forty-eight contributors toThe Cambridge History of Irish Poetry, which will be released on 31 October 2026. He was educated at St Columb’s College, Derry, and holds a PhD from Durham University.
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