Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a ...

From W.B. Yeats to James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, there is more than enough material from the most talented Irish writers to ensure you have a romantic message for that special someone on February ...

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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 ...

Seamus and Mark explore Heaney’s unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full ...

Faber will publish The Poems of Seamus Heaney in October 2025, including previously unpublished material. “This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry ...

Nobel prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney died today. When the poet, who is also known for translating Beowulf, received the David Cohen prize for lifetime achievement in 2009 ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and one of the 20th century's greatest poets, has died at age 74. Watch a recording of Mr. Heaney giving a reading of his ...

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 ...

My brother Noel Connor, who now lives in England and is also an artist and poet knew Seamus. My family lived in Plevna Street ...

For poet Seamus Heaney, peacemaking happens when “hope and history rhyme”. The scenes in the White House on Friday, when ...