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

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

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney ... poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our ...

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

But the best poetry is also “the most purposeful”, a good part of ... The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on ...

Show more Join John Toal at The Seamus Heaney HomePlace in the poet's home village of Bellaghy, Co. Londonderry. One of Heaney’s Christmas traditions was to write a poem for his annual Christmas ...

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 ...