Festival founder Francis Humphrys has welcomed the likes of Seamus Heaney and Nicola Benedetti to Bantry. He reflects on some ...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O’Donoghue and Rosie Lavan (Nov. 18, $35, ISBN 978-0-374-23523-9), brings together all of the Nobel Prize winner’s poetry in a single volume.

Life-saving to some, poetic to others, the daily warnings for those at sea have a deep-seated place in our way of life.

The Librairie Avant-Garde Poetry Festival is a key event marking the launch of the bookshop, its sixth branch in Yunnan. Like ...

Located in Huize county, Qujing in Yunnan province, the bookstore is a new branch of the Nanjing-based bookstore chain, ...

“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.

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 ...

Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This poem was published in his second poetry collection Door into the Dark in 1969, but it was written in 1966.

Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney deals with death in conflict. Look again at this poem, and at one other poem from the Conflict anthology which also deals with the theme of death in conflict.

A book dealer who claimed he bought two missing and “extraordinarily rare” Seamus Heaney first editions worth €2,000 at a bric-a-brac stall has walked free from court. Alan Ladak (70), of ...

A book dealer who claimed he bought two missing and "extraordinarily rare" Seamus Heaney first editions worth €2,000 at a bric-a-brac stall has walked free from court.

GCSE CCEA Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney - CCEA Writing a response The poem describes the events leading up to the Battle of Vinegar Hill on 21 June 1798. Croppies were Irish rebels ...