Across two studies, people reported feeling both sadness and pleasure when viewing emotionally difficult art. These feelings were closely tied to a sense of being moved and finding the experience ...

It also imagined the possibility of love. In those years of the Troubles, this seemed a distant hope, but the play did what Heaney felt art should do: it offered a ‘glimpsed alternative’.

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Difficult Conversations is a digital home for discussions between some of our leading artists and researchers on the role of art today in a polarised society.