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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939. His earliest years were spent on his parents' 50-acre farm in County Derry. At the age of 12, Heaney earned a scholarship to a Catholic boarding ...

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 ...

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; ...

How odd and "scaresome," to use a word in one of Seamus’s early poems, to think of him as mere memory, that I would never get to be in his company again. You were not "only you" but "you too" when you ...

In recent years, Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate who died on Friday in Dublin, was perhaps best known to the broad academic public as the translator of a hugely successful version of ...