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

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 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 ...

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

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.

We are not surprised as readers then when presented with tales of disagreements, obsessions with the success of other poets, notably Seamus Heaney ... “one of the best poems John Montague ...

The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024, judged anonymously by Cal Flyn, has been awarded to three outstanding pieces of nature writing in prose and poetry ... shades of Seamus Heaney and Edwin ...

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Today we launch The Telegraph’s fifth annual poetry competition ... or follow a family-member through time, as Seamus Heaney does in Digging, skipping through the decades in a single line ...

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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