Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nandi Jola Nandi with the poets who took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which he wrote about how he ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

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 ...