Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... “The Tollund Man,” a terrifying abduction of a poem that casually welcomes you on a short journey before grabbing hold of you and taking you ...

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 ...

In Seamus Heaney’s own words, ‘I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world ... Dead Bait by Mattie Brennan has won this year’s RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024 in honour ...

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 ... Mark Helprin, novelist, short-story writer, journalist: When I was a kid, I had an extraordinary memory ...

As an English teacher, one of my favourite poems to teach, to pupils of almost all ages, is Chinua Achebe’s ‘Vultures’. In ...

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’ ...

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.

Students from St Mary's College, Rathmines, Kubrat Ivanov and Ruthu Shibu Mathadil and New Park Comprehensive School students ...