A new mural on Westland Street in Londonderry earlier this week features a poem by a 12-year-old.

With the death of Nobel-Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, we listen back to our 2006 interview with him. File photo of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Heaney, whose lyrical works portray the pain ...

(RNS) The disappearance of Irish poet Seamus Heaney — so unexpected and jolting — left a silence and a stilled a pen. There would be no more new words. And yet the poetic embrace he’s left as a legacy ...

Professors, students, family, and friends came together on Thursday to remember the life of former Harvard English professor, Harvard poet-in-residence, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Seamus ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. His death was announced in ...

Photograph by Mariana Cook, 2001. This text was delivered as the eulogy at Seamus Heaney’s funeral, which took place in Dublin on September 2, 2013. I called the Heaney house once years ago. Maybe ...

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast will be moving to a new landmark building and will include an exhibition area to display the Seamus Heaney archive held by Queen's. Established ...

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast is moving to a new landmark building as part of a brilliant new era. Here, we take a look at its history and relationship with Heaney, a graduate ...

When the editors of “The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry” made Seamus Heaney their star attraction in 1982 with 20 poems—British poetry, please note—they obtained permission from his ...

When Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, in 1995, I was living in Dublin during a semester off from college, working in a crowded, narrow restaurant at the heart of the city (long days, no tips; ...

It is no accident that Seamus Heaney’s selected poems is titled “Opened Ground,” since writing poems for this most remarkable farm boy was a kind of digging: “Between my finger and my thumb / The ...