In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...
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 ...
What is the opposite of poetry? What slows the spark and puts sludge in the veins? What deadens the language? What rears up before you with livid and stupefying power—in the middle of the night, in ...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney in his latest campaign video ahead of next Tuesday's presidential election. Biden recited a passage from Heaney's "The ...
Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures
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