Seamus Heaney

Rite & Reason: As the environmental crisis has accelerated I find myself often thinking of the poet

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

Belfast-born poet’s writing was vast in its contemplation of time and mortality

These magical correspondences often contain a word or phrase that later make their way into art

Remembering Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail

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

An Irishman's Diary: Joe Biden gets some brownie points for pronunciation

Reading out loud triggers something very human, very ancient, and very rewarding

Works by Donald Teskey, Norah McGuinness and Mary Swanzy also feature in upcoming Whyte’s auction

This year’s Classics Now festival recognises how the current classical cultural resurgence has been driven by prominent female writers and historians

For Seamus Heaney and Joe Biden, Christianity provides the direction to see beyond a world of suffering

The baby sister has a roundy birthday coming up, not that I can tell you about it

RIA president commends scholarly achievements, international distinction, contributions to Irish society

Commemoration attendees express dismay at scrapping of Dublin Castle event

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