That was in my twenties, thirties, forties, partly because I was teaching and busy all day and living a full life with the thrilling Heaney household. The house, you see, quietened later at night.

It was in "Digging"-- that much-anthologized lyric from his remarkably confident first volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966) -- that the future Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney first caught the ...

Seamus Heaney’s ‘Journey Into the Wideness of Language’ In addition to his own poetry, Mr. Heaney, who died on Friday, was acclaimed for his translations, including his version of “Beowulf.” ...

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s collection North, which saw the poet directly address the Northern Ireland Troubles for the first time, is to be marked. A three-day ...

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 ...