Seamus Heaney was born on this day ... Others Were Away at Mass," which was named Ireland’s best-loved poem of the past 100 years in RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland poll in 2015.

Also of note is a collection of plays by Irish playwright Marina Carr (€100-€150 ... commissioned book of poetry by 14 contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, entitled Poems for ...

Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences From RTÉ Radio 1's Arena in 2020, Seamus ... 100 years. The themes and images of this poem, like much of Heaney ...

Poetry Extra: Seamus Heaney - Out Of The Marvellous on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds 4 Extra marks 10 years since the death of Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney [30th August 2013], as ...

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney ... at in his poetry, which came to represent a kind of redemption to Heaney when the ...

Seamus Heaney, a greatly loved poet when he died ten years ago, wrote great poems of love - love of different kinds. His daughter Catherine delves into their rich variety. Show more Seamus Heaney ...

The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

Writers Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage have been speaking to the BBC about their love of poetry. In an interview with the Today programme's James Naughtie, Seamus Heaney remembered how he felt ...

The New York Times calls Seamus Heaney a “poet of the everyday,” and ... a tool with which he excavates truths both large and small. A master of form, Heaney’s elegantly constructed poems are grounded ...

When considering an oeuvre as vast as Seamus Heaney's, what correspondences seem to offer is a tantalising glimpse behind the curated persona. Love letters, for instance—as of those between ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry ... A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays ...

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 ...