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 of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writer Caitlin Flanagan’s friendship with Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney profoundly shaped her life and her Catholic faith. She writes about their bond in The Atlantic. Keep KCRW ...

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.

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.

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”.

An Appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s Translation of ‘Beowulf’ 4 minute read <> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Getty Images—2012 Mario Carlini - Iguana Press ...