Visited here recently to go to an event in the Helicon. The centre and cafe is lovely, wish I’d allowed more time to look around. Only letdown is seating in the Helicon. It’s bench style and If it’s sold out, it is very cramped with very little room between everyone. A lovely venue, but not the most comfortable.

Amazing place-if you know his work it’s a treasure and if you don’t it’s an education. Great use of old photos, maps and interactive exhibits to bring his work and life to life. Wonderful welcoming staff and a brilliant cafe! Thoroughly recommend a visit.

We enjoyed a wonderful visit to Home Place. The layout, atmosphere and exhibits were a perfect way to discover more about the great man himself. Hearing his voice reading so many of his own poems was evocative and unusually moving. The team are all lovely people too - they really do make you feel at home with typical Northern Irish warmth and natural hospitality. We allowed 2 1/2 hours but could have stayed all day, it is a relaxed but inspirational place. A must if you are in Northern Ireland. My 94 year old Aunt visited last year and was enthralled - it really does feel like Seamus is talkning to you. A brilliantly accessible venue for our wheelchair too, bravo!

As a retired English teacher, I was very keen to come here having been recommended a visit by friends. I have to say it even exceeded my high expectations. So much to see and interact with, every aspect of Seamus Heaney's life and work was put into context in an extremely well designed and spacious centre. What a great man he was - and clearly loved by all who knew him. The staff here are knowledgeable and very helpful too. Thanks, Audrey! Very highly recommended.

I’d met Seamus only a few times. The word genius is often misused, but I do think it applies to him. Last time I met him was accidental; it was Stansted Airport where he was displeased with a check - in lady; he was as the Ulster Scots would say in a splootèr and he crabbitly told me that Ryanair had made him furious, in that wonderful mid ulster dialect. So they even annoy genius. It’s as well he didn’t put pen up paper and include Ryanair in one of his books of poetry. They would likely have come off deservedly badly. We enjoyed the museum as it was focused on Seamus’s wider family and the strong influences of his upbringing and terroir growing up in this beautiful part of our island. So much of poetry is personal. Seamus isn’t my favourite poet, my favourite among his great works is his second book of poetry ‘Door Into The Dark’. I much prefer Keats with his range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, with his own control of conflicting perspectives and his impish dry ironic wit but this museum stands as a wonderful tribute to one of our greatest modern poets.