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 ...

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 ...

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

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 ...

Frazier acknowledges the cost of a life turned “into the achievement of poetry”, yet he reminds ... the success of other poets, notably Seamus Heaney. Nor are we shocked by tales of extra ...

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’ ...

English at Queen's has an extraordinary literary heritage, as represented by globally esteemed writers, e.g. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who gives his name to the Seamus ... The central sequence ...

In my first collection, The Limit of Light, I tried to tell the story as best I could of how I lost ... attention of Harvard teacher and poet, Seamus Heaney, who became a mentor.

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 ...