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

Poet Seamus Heaney eventually became somewhat of a second father to Caitlin Flanagan, guiding her through the years and ...

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 visited Station Island several ... Irina and Mary look at one of the most remarkable women authors of the Middle Ages, Gwerful Mechain. In her poem Cywydd y Cedor ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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 ...