When the editors of “The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry” made Seamus Heaney their star attraction in 1982 with 20 poems—British poetry, please note—they obtained permission ...

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 ...

‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ Edited by Christopher Reid Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 848 pages An Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize, Seamus Heaney is an elegant and playful correspondent, ...

Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, was written in response to the American invasion of Iraq. By Ken Jaworowski ...

The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.” ...

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. By Roslyn Sulcas Poetry ...