Singer songwriter Paul Simon has unveiled a tapestry at Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 in honour of the late poet Seamus Heaney.
The Peter Sis designed tapestry Out of The Marvellous was conceived and commissioned by Art for Amnesty founder Bill Shipsey on behalf of Amnesty International.
The tapestry was funded by Paul Simon, Bono, The Edge, Paul McGuinness & Kathy Gilfillan, Marie & Joe Donnelly, Kathy & Ed Ludwig and by Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).
Out of the Marvellous takes its name from the Heaney poem Lightenings viii and contains an extract from the poem. Measuring 4 metres by 4.5 metres, it was woven over five months by master weavers in Atelier Pinton in Aubusson, France.
It now hangs in T2 where it will be clearly visible to all departing passengers.
Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, passed away in August 2013, aged 74.
Lightenings viii
The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise
Were all at prayers inside the oratory
A ship appeared above them in the air.
The anchor dragged along behind so deep
It hooked itself into the altar rails
And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill,
A crewman shinned and grappled down the rope
And struggled to release it. But in vain.
'This man can't bear our life here and will drown,'
The abbot said, 'unless we help him.' So
They did, the freed ship sailed, and the man climbed back
Out of the marvellous as he had known it.
From "Seeing Things", 1991 by Seamus Heaney
23 апр 2014
