Seamus Heaney died today at age 74. He was considered Ireland’s foremost poet since William Butler Yeats and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of “Beowulf” made the ...

Seamus Heaney brings his writing to life as he reads from his translation of Beowulf.

The works that Whishaw will read - including excerpts from Beowulf and Virgil's The Aeneid - are published in the new book, The Translations of Seamus Heaney, edited by Marco Sonzogni. Whishaw's ...

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet ...

“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.

Seamus Heaney’s most lauded translation was of Beowulf, which included so many idiosyncratic and Hiberno-English turns of phrase that one critic described it as “Heaneywulf”.

Acclaimed Derry poet, Seamus Heaney, tonight pipped children's hero Harry Potter to win his second Whitbread Book of the Year award.

Seamus Heaney described his translation of Aeneid Book VI as 'neither a "version" nor a crib… more like classics homework, the result of a lifelong desire to honour the memory of my Latin ...