When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

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 ...

A young Cavan woman, killed in a car crash two days before Christmas, was expecting her first baby, her funeral mass was told ...

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.

The Heaney family continues to do such brilliant work in Seamus’ name, and the mission statement of this prize is such a necessary one. “I believe poetry to be uniquely capable of querying and ...

Some people (academics perhaps) might think it rather sentimental to describe poems as ‘friends ... famous poets such as Seamus Heaney, Edward Thomas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as well ...

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The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024, judged anonymously by Cal Flyn, has been awarded to three outstanding pieces of nature writing in prose and poetry ... shades of Seamus Heaney and Edwin ...

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’ ...

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 ...