Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Heaney at a family party in 1979. bc-burnslibrary, CC BY-NC-ND Seamus Heaney’s final poem has been published just over a year after his death. Finished ten days before he died aged 74 in August 2013, ...

IrishCentral is revisiting Seamus Heaney’s deeply moving sonnet, which was voted Ireland’s best-loved poem in RTÉ’s 2015 A Poem for Ireland poll. The poem’s tender memory of the poet and his mother ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character, however, we likely would call him unrealistic, his life story and his career too good to be true. Like Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, but perhaps ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died this morning in Dublin at the age of 74. In a remembrance, poet and critic Craig Morgan... Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue ...

Seamus Heaney said famously of his first four volumes of poetry “Up to North, that was one book”. In Late Heaney, Nicholas Allen is concerned with the last four of Heaney’s twelve individual volumes, ...