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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seamus is also a research fellow in the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) Bonn and an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Advertisement Seamus McGuinness ...

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’ ...

Pete Hegseth isn't going to withdraw his nomination for secretary of defense, and that never-surrender attitude is just the thing America needs in someone in charge of the US military.

And don’t come to Montana — you’re not welcome. John Heaney, who knows the sting of a three-putt, is the father of an NIC golfer and former sports writer at The Press.