Kaila Patterson / Leonie Hanan Kaila Patterson (left) and Leonie Hanan are young writers Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

He wrote Digging on 4th April 1915 – in the ... Writing in the Irish Times, Heaney revealed the poem was inspired by a visit to the south coast of Galway Bay: "I had this quick sidelong glimpse ...

But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down for the event, and that Seamus would write a poem. That changed everything ...

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 ...

Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’. A dreamlike reworking of ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...