But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down ... The weight given to that last fact was the same as to the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

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.

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 ...

Mark Twain's classic story of the penniless American who is given a million pound bank note in a wager and succeeds in keeping it intact for a month, makes gentle screen satire. Mark Twain’s ...

Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism! One of the best known figures in the first aid community in Derry has passed away. Anne Heaney was associated with St John Ambulance for many ...

Seamus Heaney has always felt like a touchstone for ... a glass” under an “impatient” Cypriot sun, in the exemplary Notes Toward an Elegy. There is an elegiac strain throughout the ...

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