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.

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 ...

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work. His official biographer described ...

The Boston College Irish Studies Program will celebrate the life and work of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)—one of Ireland’s most accomplished and compelling writers—from November 16-18 ...

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 ...

The freelance literary life was a precarious one, but he could now be “Seamus” through and through. It would nevertheless be a mistake to assume that politics is the main engine of Heaney’s ...

Seamus Heaney Letters Collection Offers a Scoop of the Nobel Laureate — but No More. Unfortunately, the editor readily concedes to the censoring eye of the publishing powers that be as well as to the ...

In ways large and small, Heaney aimed to do right by other people. “The Letters of Seamus Heaney” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), an eight-hundred-page collection edited by the poet Christopher ...

50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection on Troubles to be marked - A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts ...

Seamus Heaney, the Boley Rodeo, a business-school scandal, and the Hawaiians who want their nation back. Plus new fiction, DIY backyard pizza, the gender war, a Bob Dylan biopic, rethinking old ...

Nestled in the heart of Bellaghy, County Derry, Seamus Heaney HomePlace is a purpose-built arts and literary centre, which celebrates the life and work of the late poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus ...