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 ...

The Seamus Heaney Poetry Summer School is an annual intensive week of creative development for emerging poets, with seminars, workshops and one-to-one tutorials, alongside a programme of readings and ...

I HAVE been rereading Seamus Heaney’s 1972 collection Wintering Out. It amazes me to think that it has been 52 years in the world. Indeed, my own well-worn copy is the 1974 reprint, bought new; so ...

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.

notably Seamus Heaney. Nor are we shocked by tales of extra-marital dalliances, detailed accounts of the poet’s trysts with women, some named, others anonymous. We learn of Montague’s ...

The D4 bistro owned by John and Angela O’Sullivan has hosted a galaxy of stars, including Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep and Seamus Heaney, but making it pay doesn’t get any easier John ...

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In an article in today's 'Irish Examiner', the developer says measures in new and recent legislation would be an impediment rather than a stimulus to housing delivery Michael O'Flynn, chair and ...

Vastly-respected Flemington track manager Liam O’Keeffe will fly to Queensland today to answer an SOS from racing officials over the Gold Coast’s track poisoning drama. O’Keeffe famously ...