Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

Seamus and Mark explore Heaney’s unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winner and one of the most famous, and finest ... a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet.

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot ... young writers Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

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 ...

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’ ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate ... long kinship between a rural artist and two of the world's most famous poets. Dennis O'Driscoll Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke posing under ...