North was Seamus Heaney's fourth poetry collection – he was in his mid-30s when it came out, living in Glanmore, Co. Wicklow.

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.

“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.

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 ...

Seamus Heaney’s collection North turns 50 next month, but does it still have relevance for today’s readers and critics? In advance of a major conference to mark the milestone at Queen‘s ...

A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

Seamus Heaney Letters Collection Offers a Scoop of the Nobel Laureate — but No More Unfortunately, the editor readily concedes to the censoring eye of the publishing powers that be as well as to the ...