When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

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 ...

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For our December event we have arranged a screening of the 1970 film Ulster in Focus: A Christmas Garland. We will also be looking at some of the Christmas cards made and sent by Heaney.

To enter, send one poem – and only one poem – of ... or follow a family-member through time, as Seamus Heaney does in Digging, skipping through the decades in a single line, when his father ...

According to Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press, the Tigers are showing interest in right-handers Walker Buehler and Kyle Gibson and left-hander Andrew Heaney. Buehler is the biggest name of ...

In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding’, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot’s experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding’ ...

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Don’t overthink, don’t plan ahead, don’t stop. There’s no pressure – you’re not writing a poem yet, just writing, digging up the dirt you’ll sift for gold later. If the teacup you ...

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in ...