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 town of Portrush itself is putting on a family-friendly party during the week of The Open. Every day there will be an ...

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 ...

The Librairie Avant-Garde Poetry Festival is a key event marking the launch of the bookshop, its sixth branch in Yunnan. Like ...

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.

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

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 ...