Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney 1939-2013 – “The space we stood around had been emptied” (Clearances, The Haw Lantern, 1987)
Jen Herron recalls an experience that goes a long way towards explaining why she both loves and hates writing competitions
It’s no surprise the poet’s work had such a deep and immediate impact on me. I am also the son of farming stock
Curator of the Festival in a Van programme and nine other poets will remember Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30th, 2013, at an event in Co Derry this weekend
Benign but not bland, temperate but not soft, the late poet is irreplaceable as a public figure
A reflective celebration is being held in Bellaghy while booksellers have organised dedicated collections
Original centre was opened by the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 2004
To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince
Benches inscribed with poetry in Wicklow forest first public project by students at TUD’s school of architecture, building and environment
Marilynn Richtarik’s readings of Bernard MacLaverty, Deirdre Madden and David Parks are real highlights
Television: The tone is elevated, as you would expect from a film about bogs from a text by Colm Tóibín, and focusing on Seamus Heaney
Lament for Art O’Leary, which Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote for her murdered husband on May 4th, 1773, is still hugely powerful
At a state dinner between US president Joe Biden and South Korea president Yoon Suk-yeol, guests were treated to a rollercoaster of cultural flattery and some paddywhackery
Marilynn Richtarik explains why, for her new book, she mined literature to chart the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland that made the Belfast Agreement possible
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