Rite & Reason: As the environmental crisis has accelerated I find myself often thinking of the poet
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney 1939-2013 – “The space we stood around had been emptied” (Clearances, The Haw Lantern, 1987)
Hughes’s new book, Emma, Disappeared, follows James Lyster, whose life begins to unravel after the disappearance of a high-achieving university graduate
Seamus Heaney was born on Thursday, April 13th, 1939. ‘Thursday’s child has far to go.’
Clued-in fans would know the musician as one half of The Lost Brothers, but the solo work that began as something to pass the time during lockdown soon turned into an idea he couldn’t ignore
The presumptive taoiseach used a familiar quote when introducing himself as leader, but whose line was it anyway?
Claire Hanna says ‘those of us who want to talk about a new Ireland have an obligation to spell out a lot more exactly what we mean by that’
The poet and editor on keeping a loved one’s memory alive, his literary journal Irish Pages and his regard for Seamus Heaney’s work
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
The body of a young male was found in an area made famous by the work of the late Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz were firm friends and Nobel laureates. A writer’s residency has been established in Kraków in their memory
Q&A: The author of Pure Filth on being a ‘roaming Catholic’, the problem with inviting Turgenev to dinner and the state of poetry
From unhappy beginnings, he finally found his place as a champion and publisher of a glittering and eclectic assortment of poets
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
Patrick Kavanagh may not have used the word in his poetry, but Seamus Heaney did
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