Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... How is anyone chosen? The famous last stanza of the poem is the answer to the question people didn’t even know how to pose about the river of ...

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 ...

English PEN, together with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, has announced Susannah Dickey’s ISDAL (Picador Poetry ... was one of the very best to do it.

Meán Scoil Mhuire, Longford students Kanyinsola Richard Akinyemi and Weronika Kostyra have been recognised as finalists in ...

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

Bel Mooney picks the best Poetry collections of this year, all of which would make perfect gifts this Christmas, ...

The poem I really should commit to memory is Seamus Heaney’s “Postscript ... intensely on a text it would often and despite my best efforts worm its way into retention.

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.

If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing ... by Nithy Kasa (intermediate category), Nocturne by Eavan Boland (senior category). The late ...

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 ...