Marie Heaney attends emotional tribute to late poet

Paul Simon and Eavan Boland among those to take part in East Village poetry reading

Eason’s bookshop on Dublin’s O’Connell Street sold out within days of poet’s passing

Canadian-born author interviewed at Dún Laoghaire festival ahead of publication of final chapter in trilogy

Tá scríbhneoirí móra ar shlí na fírinne – ach maireann a saothar. Léitear iad!

In recent days, dozens of Irish Times readers – from practised scribes to amateur versemakers – have written and submitted poems remembering the late Seamus Heaney. Here is a selection of their contributions

Emotion and love for an artist and ordinary man were at the heart of Heaney’s funeral

Heaney’s final formal interview took place in Paris last June

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’

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Countless hearts are blown open as local farmer’s son is laid to rest

Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town

Sadness and sense of loss at Seamus Heaney’s death truly crossed the globe but it was deep too in Bellaghy

Archbishop says poet was always a man of kindness and humility

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We will always have the great poet. We have lost an exemplary man