It was an evening only Seamus Heaney could have inspired, and it began with a story of sorrow and discovery: On Aug. 30, just two days after the new Irish Ambassador, Anne Anderson, arrived at her ...

The Nobel Prize-winning poet talks to host Jacki Lyden about his life and work. He turns 70 next year and reflects on his life so far in the new book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

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.

The unsilenced voice of Seamus Heaney (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.

Exploring the life and legacy. At Seamus Heaney HomePlace, visitors are transported into the poetic world of Seamus Heaney. The award-winning exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into ...

Students, Professors Celebrate Life of Seamus Heaney Keir D. GoGwilt, a postgraduate fellow, plays a song during Seamus J. Heaney’s memorial service at Memorial Church.

Seamus Heaney's Translation Of 'The Aeneid' Gets Posthumous ... that this was this touchstone of a poem that he'd been thinking about and coming back to and returning to his entire life.

Seamus Heaney, the poet whose deeply felt descriptions of rural life in Ireland carried larger echoes of the island’s violent sectarian split, died Friday at 74 ...

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was 74 and had recently been in ill health.

Watch: Ciarán Hinds reads from Seamus Heaney: A Life in Letters. Even more fascinating is the footnote which Reid provides, speculating on Heaney’s reticence around committing his personal ...