When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

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 ...

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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.

To enter, send one poem – and only one poem – of ... or follow a family-member through time, as Seamus Heaney does in Digging, skipping through the decades in a single line, when his father ...

Don’t overthink, don’t plan ahead, don’t stop. There’s no pressure – you’re not writing a poem yet, just writing, digging up the dirt you’ll sift for gold later. If the teacup you ...

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Seamus is also a research fellow in the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) Bonn and an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Advertisement Seamus McGuinness ...