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 ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said.

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast has announced exciting plans for a new phase of the centre.

Then, asked when the writing gets done, he sounds like any other writer with a day job and family to support: Well, it used to be that -- whatever I did -- I wrote at night.

‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ Edited by Christopher Reid Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 848 pages An Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize, Seamus Heaney is an elegant and playful correspondent, ...

So, I wrote a book, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,’ about his interest in the gift-exchange rituals and the ethics of gift giving.” The book will be published later this year.