We were fucked. 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.

"It seemed to me to mesh beautifully with Mandela's return.” Brian McCormick, manager of the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in the poet’s Co Derry hometown of Bellaghy, explains further. “It was Mandela’s ...

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...

Benone Strand in County Londonderry is an extraordinary spot. Or check out water sports with Strangford Lough Activity Centre taking bookings now. Visit the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, ...

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.

Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in ...

In The Irish Times this Saturday, Claire Connolly explores the world and legacy of Somerville & Ross and there is a Q&A with Giles Foden about his career and latest novel, Thirst. As Notre Dame ...

An Album of Upside Down Drawings' and, most recently, a book of poetry 'When you see my mother, ask her to dance', which she is discussing with poet Paul Muldoon in Seamus Heaney's homeplace in ...

in a series of free choral rehearsals where they will collaborate with twenty young people from Cookstown Youth Choir in a day of open workshops at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy.

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.

According to Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press, the Tigers are showing interest in right-handers Walker Buehler and Kyle Gibson and left-hander Andrew Heaney. Buehler is the biggest name of ...