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 ...

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... Poems As 'Stepping Stones': Remembering Seamus Heaney ...

On the 40th anniversary of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize, Cambridge University Press has published Seamus Heaney and Catholicism, an in-depth study by Irish writer Gary Wade examining the ...

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 ...