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 ...

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.

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Today we launch The Telegraph’s fifth annual poetry competition ... or follow a family-member through time, as Seamus Heaney does in Digging, skipping through the decades in a single line ...

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’ ...

We are not surprised as readers then when presented with tales of disagreements, obsessions with the success of other poets, notably Seamus Heaney ... “one of the best poems John Montague ...

The BBC on Wednesday celebrates 100 years of a weather forecast for sailors in British waters that has inspired musicians and ...

He was co-owner, with his brother Ted, of the famous Greenwich Village 8th ... her to the attention of Harvard teacher and poet, Seamus Heaney, who became a mentor. Wilentz first came to Dublin ...

Often the best feeling about traveling and exploring ... perfectly captured by none other than the late, great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Accompanying a thank you letter after visiting the house ...

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Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in ...