BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet.

In the collection of letters, I came across one he’d written ... Seamus Heaney.” And with that, the entire crowd began clapping. The announcer said that in addition to his great works and ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot between 1966 and 2004 That doesn't mean they can't be uncritical. While Kaila says Heaney's success in "addressing Irish themes in a ...

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...