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 ...

The Troubles were the four-decade-long conflict ... His title comes from Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem Whatever You Say Say Nothing: “Where to be saved you only must save face/And whatever you ...

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.

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 ...

both in theme and tone – it was good craic as Seamus Heaney had said about a previous collection I’d sent him. And Heaney was equally enthusiastic when I sent him a selection of cantos from Da ...

It was not the season that Andrew Heaney was hoping for with the Texas Rangers. After winning the World Series with the club in 2023, the veteran starter returned to the team's rotation again last ...

As another year draws to a close, it's time to commemorate those we have said goodbye to over the last 12 months ...

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As much a Dystopian novel as a book of non-fiction, Annie Jacobson's Nuclear War is a terrifyingly accurate portrait about ...

In this month’s cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” Caitlin Flanagan writes about her relationship with the poet Seamus Heaney. Heaney first met the Flanagan family ...

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 Heaney Centre, and T.S.

We are reminded of Richard Holmes’s declaration that biography is a disreputable genre that has been causing trouble ever since ... notably Seamus Heaney. Nor are we shocked by tales of extra ...