As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot ... young writers Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes ... and two of the world's most famous poets. Dennis O'Driscoll Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke posing ...

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 ...