Seamus Heaney's Aeneid: Edna O'Brien reads an extract – video

‘At last! Are you here at last!’ Seamus Heaney’s final translation, of Virgil’s Aeneid, will be published posthumously in March. One of his childhood favourites, the Aeneid was the work Heaney turned to after the death of his father in 1986. Here the writer Edna O’Brien reads from Heaney’s version of Book VI, where the Trojan hero Aeneas meets his own father in the Underworld

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