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

Poet Seamus Heaney eventually became somewhat of a second father to Caitlin Flanagan, guiding her through the years and ...

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber & Faber there in the late spring (and now here by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 800-plus pages ...

Celebrated Irish poet Seamus Heaney was a powerful voice for peace who touched the hearts of generations of readers. HE was a snowy-haired, craggy mountain of a man; a man who radiated granite ...

Did the poems I had read, or the poetic tradition ... 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, as ...

Nandi Jola Nandi with the poets who took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which he wrote about how he ...

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 ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

The Boston College Irish Studies Program will celebrate the life and work of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)—one of Ireland’s most accomplished and compelling writers—from November 16-18 ...

The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Time’ – a subject tackled by everyone from Emily Dickinson to Simon Armitage ...

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’ ...