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

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

Join English PEN, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney for the announcement of the winner of the inaugural ... reality and … sensitive to the inner laws of the poet’s being”, to ...

Burns for installation at Boston College Ireland. A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: ...

English at Queen's has an extraordinary literary heritage, as represented by globally esteemed writers, e.g. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who gives his name to the Seamus Heaney Centre, and T.S.

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’ ...

Geoffrey Hinton delivers a speech during the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 10, 2024. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images A portion of Hinton’s $500,000 will fund the ...

And the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is … Han Kang, the first South Korean to receive the honor. The 53-year-old author is known for her poetic prose and exploration of historical ...

It is co-ordinated by English PEN, together with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney. The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize was judged by poets Nick Laird, Paula Meehan and Shazea ...

In The Irish Times this Saturday, Claire Connolly explores the world and legacy of Somerville & Ross and there is a Q&A with Giles Foden about his career and latest novel, Thirst. As Notre Dame ...