Seamus Heaney Homeplace

Signature Woodcraft have recently been selected to supply our products for the new Seamus Heaney Centre, Homeplace, in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland.  We are honoured to have been successful along with 7 other local makers to supply the craft shop in the centre.

The centre is full of artefacts and other features from Seamus Heaney’s life and work.  Alongside a Conway Stewart fountain pen, you will find his Duffle Coat and other pieces that celebrate him and his work.  It is a great venue for inspiration and education and is accessible to all.

Seamus Heaney was one of the most celebrated poets of the 20^th century, winning the Nobel Prize in 1995.  One of his last published poems was a piece on the Conway Stewart pen that his parents bought him as a child.  In this poem, he draws on his first encounter with the Conway, with the salesman showing him how to fill it from an ink bottle.

Signature Woodcraft have used this poem as a platform for the development of a special range of poems for Homeplace.  We have created a range of luxury handmade fountain and rollerball pens using genuine Conway Stewart materials sourced from the company when it went bankrupt in 2014.  The Conway Stewart Edition pens seek to celebrate the man, his writing instruments and his home country.

Corsivo Fountain Pen in Conway Stewart “Bronze”

Trenton Fountain Pen in Conway Stewart “Red Stardust”

Mirage Fountain Pen in Conway Stewart “Azure”

Mirage Rollerball Pen in Conway Stewart “Flame Red”

Tycoon Fountain Pen in Conway Stewart “Red Whirl”

Tycoon Fountain Pen in Conway Stewart “Lava”

Alongside the Conway Stewart Edition luxury pens, we have also created a range of handmade ballpoint pens, using carefully selected woods that feature in some of Seamus’ poems.

Scribe Ballpoint Pen in Willow, from the poem “Kinship”

Scribe Ballpoint Pen in Hazel, from the poem “A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann”

Gracilis Ballpoint Pen in Yew, from the poem “The Strand at Lough Beg”

Sirocco Ballpoint Pen in Spalted Beech, from the poem “The Beech”

Emerald Eye Ballpoint Pen in Irish Bog Oak, from the poem “Bog Oak”

Zenith Ballpoint Pen in Spalted Ash, from the poem “The Ash Plant”