The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

Heather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer at Wellesley College, the author of a prize-winning study of Elizabeth Bowen, ...

An Irishman living with a stutter said it was "an emotional experience" to recite a Seamus Heaney poem to US President Joe Biden on St Patrick's Day. Jamie Googan, founder of Stuttering ...

Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish ...

When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text message. Minutes before ...

Nobel prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney died today. When the poet, who is also known for translating Beowulf, received the David Cohen prize for lifetime achievement in 2009 ...

Using our patented one to four shamrock rating system (four being the most obvious, but also still awesome), here are our St. Patrick’s Day season concert picks.

The readers to feature will include Cate Kennedy, Harry Nankin, Siobhán Robb, Joel Meadows, Phee Broadway, Dugald McLellan, ...

BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet. Des ...