Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... Marie told me that I could call her at the smallest hint of trouble. Everyone left, the boys got into their pajamas, and we hit the Richard Scarry ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage ... queer people and those outside of Northern Ireland who now call it home". Heaney, she says, opened that door. If that is so, South ...

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...