Ian Hickey received his PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in 2019. During his time there he worked as a Departmental Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature and as a Research Assistant in the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies, Mary Immaculate College.

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney, offering a deeper insight into the mind of one of Ireland's greatest writers.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Derrida, Hauntology, and the Spectre

Chapter 2: Norse and British Spectres of Colonialism

Chapter 3: The Haunted Bog: Spectrality and the Bog Poems

Chapter 4: Wider European Hauntings: Virgil and Dante

Chapter 5: Looking Backwards into the Future - 'Route 110'

Index