Writing
Seamus Heaney
Acting credits
NRSeamus Heaney travels across Lough Erne in Fermanagh, visiting early Christian sites and the settlements of the English and Scots who made their homes on the loughside.
The Loughsiders
1972
A behind the scenes look at a theatre company formed by playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. It contains footage of rehearsals and the performance in Derry of Three Sisters.
Chekhov in Derry
1983
Irish poetry evokes power, change, life, death, sorrow and joy. Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007.
Ireland: Power of the Poets
2007
One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher. His favourite loch, the Loch of the Green Corrie, lies high up in the mountains of Assynt in the far north-west of Scotland. Fiddle maestro Aly Bain, Billy Connolly and award-winning poet and novelist Andrew Greig celebrate MacCaig in the centenary year of his birth with a journey from Edinburgh to Assynt and then the long climb to the Loch of the Green Corrie with its elusive trout.
Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
2010
NRDocumentary short written by Seamus Heaney.
Something to Write Home About
1998
7.0An investigation into the victims killed and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Disappeared
2013
Behind the camera
NRDocumentary short written by Seamus Heaney.
Something to Write Home About
1998
When a ten year old boy plays hide-and-seek with friends, he finds something that leads him to a terrible truth: no matter what progress mankind makes, many are forced to travel lunar distances beyond love.
Bye-Child
2003