Heaney went for the latter. In a conversation I recorded at his Dublin home for a newspaper article in 2006, he put the two together. “The very fact that you were called ‘Seamus’ on the back ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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, ...

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”.

Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s Legacy, at His Birthplace A 21,000-square-foot arts center has opened in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, where the Nobel Prize-winning poet was born. By Roslyn Sulcas Poetry ...

IrishCentral Contributor Kate Sullivan takes us on a creative journey with mad medieval King Sweeney and the wise words of Seamus Heaney. Inspired by the Irish poet, Ireland's landscape and trees ...

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.” ...

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.” ...