The motivation for his move south is well documented in the first part of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney.” Writing to his editor at Faber, Charles Monteith, in 1972, he referred to Belfast as ...

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 ...

Heaney, at this point in his career, in his life, is a poet of established greatness, a professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, and his situation vis-à-vis stuff has clearly become acute.

Heaney was not pleased. He had indeed been born and raised on a small farm in Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, but had relocated south to the Republic in the 1970s.

Acclaimed actor Ben Whishaw will visit 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:30 pm to deliver a dramatic reading of literary classics and poems translated over the years by the ...

News about Seamus Heaney, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. Seamus Heaney ...

Composer Osvaldo Golijov’s newest composition was inspired by a single line by the late Irish Nobel Prize laureate, Seamus Heaney: “Sing yourself to where the singing comes from.” ...

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 ...

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was visiting him.