A Belfast actress hopes that her play will encourage those who lost children in the Northern Ireland Troubles to talk about ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s Translation of ‘Beowulf’ 4 minute read <> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Getty Images—2012 Mario Carlini - Iguana Press ...

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.

The Seamus Heaney Centre, part of the School of Arts, English and Languages is home to some of the UK and Ireland's foremost poets, novelists, scriptwriters and critics.

In his 1995 Nobel lecture, Heaney spoke of poetry’s “gift for telling truth” – and beyond that, its capacity “to be not only pleasurably right, but compellingly wise”.

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 of the ...