EXHIBITION LAUNCH
PRONI today invited Pretani Associates to the launch of the exhibition: “John Hewitt – Home Words”
9TH JULY at 1.00pm
PRONI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast
John Hewitt, the Ulster poet, author, lecturer, broadcaster and journalist – bequeathed over 7,000 documents and volumes to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) in 1987.
As keeper of this important Archive (PRONI Ref. D3838), PRONI was delighted to welcome this excellent exhibition. Home Words went on display in their atrium space, directly below the large-scale reproduction of Hewitt’s Ulster Names.
This exhibition celebrated the life, work and legacy of John Hewitt and was created by Frank Ferguson, Kathryn White and John McMillan from the University of Ulster in partnership with Tony Kennedy from the John Hewitt Society and Helen Perry from the Causeway Museum Service. The project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
At the launch, curators Frank Ferguson talked us through the story of the exhibition. Frank and Kathryn White are co-editors of Hewitt’s manuscript autobiography, A North Light, and Frank steered us through the revelations teased out through this research. A special poetry reading by Frank Sewell followed, as well as a presentation from Des McCabe (PRONI) on the Hewitt Papers.