Exhibition at Poznań City Hall in cooperation with the Irish Culture Foundation
The Honorary Vice Consul of Ireland in Poland, the Vicepresident of the Irish Culture Foundation and the Director of the Raczyński Library, together with the Department of City Development and Foreign Cooperation, officially opened the exhibition of illustrations and prints. The presentation of the poem without the use of words was undertaken by secondary school pupils from all over Poland, so already in autumn the exhibition will start its journey to the schools of the pupils who took part in the competition. The illustrations will be on display in Warsaw, Sandomierz, Zabrze, Biała Podlaska and Międzychód.
The organiser and originator of the competition to translate a poem into a form other than text is the Irish Culture Foundation. Participants of the original project "Ireland at School" of the 2023/2024 school year took part in the competition. Thanks to the Irish Embassy in Poland, Seamus Heaney's poem "Beacons at Bealtaine" could be used in the competition.
The Irish Culture Foundation, based in Poznań, has been promoting Irish culture in Poland for 21 years. It organises academic sessions, online literary lectures jointly with the Faculty of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University, workshops for children and young people, film screenings, and St. Patrick's Day and St. Bridget's Day celebrations. It cooperates with city institutions, the Irish Embassy and the Honorary Consulate of Ireland in Poznań. It creates and coordinates its own educational project "Irlandia w szkole" ("Ireland at School"), which has been actively introducing elements of Irish culture and history into schools across Poland for 11 years.
On the other hand, the story of the creation of the poem "Beacons at Bealtaine" dates back to 2004, when the Irish government commissioned the eminent Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney to create a piece for Dublin's the Day of Welcomes on 1 May 2004. On that day, ten more new Member States joined the European Union - Poland was among them. In 2024, we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this historic day and to mark the occasion, the poem has been translated and published in the national languages of ten countries. Seamus Heaney lived from 1939 to 2013, was one of the most outstanding poets of his generation, translator, teacher and critic, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
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