The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
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During the later years of the group, Ciaran Carson joined as a writer. Carson would later go on to found and become the director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the university. Although his poetry would be published much later, after the dissolution of the group even. It offers an interesting testament to the lasting impact of the group. Hobsbaum left Belfast due to the rising violence in the city and the breakup of his marriage. Carson’s poetry reflects a Belfast in conflict, the very reason Hobsbaum left the group behind.
