University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Archive-It Partner Since: Jan, 2012
Organization Type: Colleges & Universities
Organization URL:http://sils.unc.edu

Collection: Seamus Heaney: Evanescent Memorials

"Sheamus Heaney: Evanescent Memorials" captures responses to Heaney's death in the days and weeks following. Using Twitter as a central hub to collect content pertaining to Heaney, his work, his life, and his death, this collection also elucidates the complex ways in which individuals are memorialized on the Web.