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

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 ...

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

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

The new bookstore houses nearly 20,000 books, including poetry and books about local history and culture. A variety of ...

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.

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

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

Heaney is 3-5 despite a 3.33 ERA in 14 starts, and the 34-year-old has pitched in the postseason in two of the past three seasons.” ...

“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.