Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot ... young writers Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

But the best poetry is also “the most purposeful ... The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on a topic which ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes ... and two of the world's most famous poets. Dennis O'Driscoll Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke posing ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Few poets have captured the imagination of the world like Seamus Heaney ... In mapping intersecting themes in the current terrain of Heaney ...

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...