As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... How is anyone chosen? The famous last stanza of the poem is the answer to the question people didn’t even know how to pose about the river of ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winner and one of the most famous, and finest ... a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet.

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot ... young writers Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

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 ...

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’ ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate ... long kinship between a rural artist and two of the world's most famous poets. Dennis O'Driscoll Seamus Heaney and Barrie Cooke posing under ...