Kaila Patterson / Leonie Hanan Kaila Patterson (left) and Leonie Hanan 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 ...

He wrote Digging on 4th April 1915 – in the ... Writing in the Irish Times, Heaney revealed the poem was inspired by a visit to the south coast of Galway Bay: "I had this quick sidelong glimpse ...

But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down for the event, and that Seamus would write a poem. That changed everything ...

A sculpture depicting one of Seamus Heaney's most famous poems has been unveiled in his ... an interpretation of the Nobel Laureate's work "Digging". The sculpture, created by Scottish artist ...

Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’. A dreamlike reworking of ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...