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

The Estate of Barrie Cooke Barrie Cooke's watercolour and ink illustration for Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems, 1975 (Pembroke College acquisition) The letters and notes reveal how Heaney developed some ...

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

Nandi Jola Nandi with the poets who took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which he wrote about how he ...

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 ...