Liverpool to stage annual tribute to Seamus Heaney
The first annual Seamus Heaney Lecture will be held in Liverpool next month, including poetry read by Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar. The Northern Irish actor will take part in the free event on October 17 which is being organised by the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, will give the lecture – titled Airs and Graces - which will also be attended by Heaney’s widow Marie and childre