Seamus Heaney is getting a museum in his honor funded by lotto money.

Seamus Heaney is one of a few poets of the last forty years that the world remembers. Now, Heaney will be remembered with a museum as well.

Heaney, the Nobel laureate who died in 2013 at the age of 74, will be the focus of a literary trail in County Derry, Northern Ireland, with a museum as the centerpiece. £688,700 in funding will be provided by the United Kingdom's National Lottery.

Poetry and the lottery.

It makes sense, because most poets will only know what money looks like if they win the lottery.




photo: The Celtic Times