Letter from Michael [Longley] from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, regarding Heaney's work 'Soundings', 18th September 1972.

Annual report 2004-2005 :

NDPB Arts Council of Northern Ireland annual report and accounts for the year ended 31st March 2005 /

Ulster painting '68.

At that moment the mucous membrane slid, / under which bones and feathers were folded. / A muscle stirred and twitched on my shoulder knot, / a shape was growing behind me. The sun was hot. / With drying came distinctness, feeling extended / through to the tips of sailing wings that spread, / now huge and serviceable, overhead. / I was to pull them down, and they would try / to lift me off these stones into the sky.

First Movement:

Low clouds, yellow in a mist wind / sift on far-off Ards / drift hazily...I was born on such a morning / smelling of the Bone Yards, / the smoking chimneys over the slate / roof tops / the wayward storm birds / and to the east where morning is, / the sea / and to the west where evening is, / the sea / threatening with danger / and it / would always darken suddenly.

It was here the boy entered the skylight / and was gone, into the reversed world / of his dreams, hoping that life there might / prove otherwise...Half-Moon Lake by Ciaran Carson. Image by Brian Ferran.

The link :

news and information from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

No 5 "Washing Potatoes" by R.J. Welch from the R.J. Welch Collection, Ulster Museum.

[Untitled poster featuring the image of a ram, seen from the front] Image by Carol Graham :

An Arts Council of Northern Ireland promotion.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Distribution Account 1999-2000 :

account of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland ... for the year ended 31 March 2000, together with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon ...

Open painting exhibition 1970:

the Arts Council Gallery.

Caught in the shadows under the arch / he's grit lodged under a heavy eyelid. / The night's spoor got lost somewhere / in the dark. One had smiled across / as if she would take him in a breath; / another's talk had seemed like the genuine / swag - now it was head rubble, / and the only eye that he was getting / was from the plunderer on the billboard. / Across the beach there are coils of water / glistening moist as grave jewels.

Digest of Arts statistics Northern Ireland 2010 /

Annual report /

Article :

Maurice Orr /

Irish Georgian architecture and its historical and unique development in Ulster.

A photographic exhibition formed and presented by C.E.M.A. (Northern Ireland). Foreward and catalogue.

With a body heavy as earth she begins to speak; her words are dew, bright deadly to drink her hair the damp mare's nest of the grass...

[Untitled]

William Conor, 1881-1968.

6. 'Ballybay' by C.A. Caulfield.