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 ...

Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F. W. Dupee, and Tom in California in 1974. Right: Caitlin with Seamus in California in 1974. (Sarah Palmer; Source: Courtesy of Caitlin Flanagan) ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ten years after his death, "Four Sides of Seamus Heaney," debuted Sunday, August 20, 2023, and comprises of four programs, each focusing on a different aspect of Heaney's work, each with a ...

Established as a centre for excellence in poetry and research as well as being the home of Creative Writing at Queen's, the Seamus Heaney Centre opened its doors at Queen's University Belfast in ...

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 ...

On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," acclaimed Irish poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney shares poems spanning more than four decades of his work in this talk from 2002.

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.

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74 Mr. Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, is recognized as one of the major poets of the ...