An event will mark the 50th anniversary of one of Seamus Heaney’s best known collections, North (Niall Carson/PA) The 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s collection North, which saw ...

Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems... Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish ...

When Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney died on Friday, Aug. 30, Marblehead’s Claire Keyes emailed a poem she wrote this spring, “Seamus Heaney Bought Me a Beer,” to friends and ...

Three-day conference will take place in the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University Belfast from June 5-7 The late Seamus Heaney whose 1975 collection ‘North’ will be the focus of a three-day ...

THE cat was lucky the box was too big to push through the letterbox, for had it landed on him nine lives would have been no use. The box in question contained the life’s work of a writer who ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died this morning in Dublin at the age of 74. In a remembrance, poet and critic Craig Morgan... Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue ...

In his art and life Seamus Heaney stayed at a distance from the imprisoning claims of his home and homeland. He had the sense to keep his distance, even in a room filled with friends and admirers ...

Queen's University Belfast has announced a new landmark $6.24 million venue for the Seamus Heaney Centre, which is expected to open in early 2024. The Seamus Heaney Centre, which was originally opened ...

THE eyes first. Kind, brown, narrowing as they smiled. Eyes that had squinted into wind and through smoke: that had seen a river rat “tracing its wet/Arcs on the stones”, wind “quicksilvering” a ...

Seamus Heaney, the poet whose deeply felt descriptions of rural life in Ireland managed to carry larger echoes of the island’s violent sectarian split, died Friday at the age of 74, his publisher said ...