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 ...

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 ...

The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

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 student from Co. Wexford is among the winners of the 2024 Poetry Aloud competition, which challenges second-level students ...

The festive focused broadcast will take place on Sunday, December 1 with Seamus Heaney’s Christmas poems being the centre of attention. The broadcast will also draw attention to Christmas musical ...

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy The ...

Lucy Murphy, from St Mary's Secondary School in Ballina, has been recognised as a finalist in this year’s Poetry Aloud ...

Meán Scoil Mhuire, Longford students Kanyinsola Richard Akinyemi and Weronika Kostyra have been recognised as finalists in ...