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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 ...

Faber will publish The Poems of Seamus Heaney in October 2025, including previously unpublished material. “This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry ...

He finished his farewell remarks by quoting from the Seamus Heaney poem The Cure at Troy and said: “Once in a lifetime, the longed-for tidal wave of justice will rise up and hope and history ...