Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

Amelia Loulli has won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and run ...

Entertainment ‘It’s impossible to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney’ - Frank Skinner on lifelong love of verse ahead of Heaney HomePlace visit David Roy chats to top comedian Frank ...

Anne Hailes meets Peter Anderson, whose artistic talents have enhanced some of TV’s top shows - and one of our local parks ...

Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking over from Prof Paul Muldoon. The position will run from ...

The Castle Kitchen and Bar at the golf club is probably up there with one of the best golf club restaurants I’ve ever been to ...

In her monthly diary from Ballyconnelly Farm, Ruby Free ponders the legacy of ecology policy, pays tribute to the late Irish ...

The new bookstore houses nearly 20,000 books, including poetry and books about local history and culture. A variety of cultural creative products are for sale, 60 of which are created specifically for ...

GCSE CCEA Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney - CCEA Context The poem describes the events leading up to the Battle of Vinegar Hill on 21 June 1798.

Gestures ubiquitous at Irish funerals before the pandemic ravaged the world were no longer allowed during the most surreal ...

Despite her County Armagh pedigree, Noelle McAlinden is nowhere more at peace than in the Fermanagh Lakelands, which she has called home for ...

Purchased from Lady Gregory and restored by architect William A. Scott, Thoor Ballylee was a happy place for the poet and his ...