Seamus Heaney was born on this day ... "When All The 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.

Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character ... family loyalty—within him. Its best-known poems find metaphors for the Northern Irish conflict in acid-preserved Iron Age corpses ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose ... “You are confirmed by the visitation of the last poem and threatened by the elusiveness of the next one, and the best moments are those when your mind ...

At one recent reading, a young student was heard lamenting, ‘I love Seamus Heaney! I just want him to give me a hug!’ With his passion for poetry and his genius for selecting verses we all ...

Jollimore's new book of poems, "At Lake Scugog," will be published next year. Seamus Heaney is among the most famous and esteemed living poets. His 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature confirmed the ...

Seamus Heaney is a man of letters but ... Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten ...

Seamus Heaney was already one of Ireland’s best-known poets when the sectarian ... death drifting across the Irish landscape and a 1979 poem called “The Singer’s House” that defended ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel laureate ... but principally for the poetry he himself wrote. Though the Heaney of the poems could sound unsettled, or even tormented, he was in person equable ...

"He never really left the parish," says Dan Heaney, one of Seamus's brothers. Dan takes John to the sculpture of a turf digger and shares something few know about the genesis of the famous poem ...