Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...
BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet.
ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot between 1966 and 2004 That doesn't mean they can't be uncritical. While Kaila says Heaney's success in "addressing Irish themes in a ...
The Heaney family continues to do such brilliant work in Seamus’ name ... “Susannah has written an extraordinary, inventive collection that challenges us, with playful parody, to examine ...
She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...