Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at Mass ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and is considered the greatest Irish poet of the latter half of the 20th century. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes to support this claim, ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet... Poems As 'Stepping Stones': Remembering Seamus Heaney ...

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work. His official biographer described him ...

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast continues the beloved Irish poet's legacy, giving new writers, critics, and poets a chance to fulfill their literary ambitions. Each year, the ...

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books... Poet Seamus Heaney Was A Teacher, Critic, ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...