Seamus Heaney draws on Yeats when he suggests our experience of place
enhances ‘our sense of ourselves as inhabitants not just of a geographical
country but of a country of the mind’. Una Mannion, lecturer in Performing
Arts and Hennessy Literary Awards 2017 Emerging Poetry winner, discusses how the Yeats legacy impacts on the Sligo artist’s sense of place and aesthetic sensibility, and how the work helps us to reimagine Yeats and our own connection to language, landscape and place.
