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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.” ...

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 ...

That was in my twenties, thirties, forties, partly because I was teaching and busy all day and living a full life with the thrilling Heaney household. The house, you see, quietened later at night.

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 ...