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This is it, Yeah - an archive project by the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
LP, yellow vinyl, limited edition of 200
Catalogue number SHC001

Words by Nick Laird, Leontia Flynn, Stephen Sexton, Gail McConnell, Dawn Watson, Susannah Dickey, Fiona Benson. Words and music by Lisa O’Neill. With Ciaran Carson and Seamus Heaney from the archives.

Music, scoring and arrangements by Mark McCambridge, with additional musicians: Fionn McCambridge (violin), David Murphy (pedal steel) and Richard Hill (clarinet). Lisa O’Neill is accompanied by Brian Leach (hammered dulcimer) and Joseph Doyle (double bass).

Recorded by Georgios Varoutsos at the Sonic Lab at Queen’s University, Belfast. Additional recording by Gemma Poulton in Exeter, and Mark McCambridge in Belfast. Mastered by Ben McAuley. All new recordings made October 2025 - March 2026.

Produced for the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s by Mark McCambridge, with Glenn Patterson, Patricia Malone and Rachel Brown. Artwork by Stephen Connolly.

Seamus Heaney interview extracts taken from the BBC programme Explorations II: Seamus Heaney, first broadcast in 1978, Frontline b. 1999, Fine Lines b. 2001 (p) BBC Licensed courtesy of BBC Studios. Other extracts courtesy of RTÉ Archives. They are all included here with kind permission from the Estate of Seamus Heaney.

Ciaran Carson playing The Blackbird on tin whistle was recorded by Paul Maddern at the Lyric Theatre Belfast. It is included here with kind permission from Deirdre Carson.

This new recording of Blackbird (written by Lisa O’Neill and published by Domino Music Publishing) is included with kind permission of Rough Trade Records. All poems and original music remain copyright of the authors and their publishers.

This is a project from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s, whose Broadcast Collection was the inspiration for this album.