What did people want from Seamus Heaney at that time? Everything. There was tremendous pressure for him to turn his poetry into a ... often to some of his most famous lines, from The Cure at ...

But the best poetry is also “the most purposeful”, a good part of ... The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on ...

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 ...

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy The ...

The festive focused broadcast will take place on Sunday, December 1 with Seamus Heaney’s Christmas poems being the centre of attention. The broadcast will also draw attention to Christmas musical ...

Join English PEN, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus ... volume of poetry, published in the UK or Ireland, of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or ...

CONTINUE READING BELOW PHOTO PICTURED: Isabel O'Leary has been recognised as a finalist in the 2024 Poetry Aloud competition. The late poet Seamus Heaney was a supporter of the Poetry Aloud ...

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.

IC Imogen Cassels’s most recent poetry pamphlet is Chesapeake ... Davoudian’s not above nicking a good move, in this case from Seamus Heaney. It’s a nod to “Digging”, and Heaney ...

Show more Join John Toal at The Seamus Heaney HomePlace in the poet's home village of Bellaghy, Co. Londonderry. One of Heaney’s Christmas traditions was to write a poem for his annual Christmas ...

Day by day Dorothy Wordsworth celebrated spring’s arrival in her ‘Alfoxden Journal’ while her brother and Coleridge wrote the poems that would make up one of the world’s most famous books, Lyrical ...

The Heaney family continues to do such brilliant work in Seamus’ name, and the mission statement of this prize is such a necessary one. “I believe poetry to be uniquely capable of querying and ...