In “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie explores how controversies over artists like Sinéad O’Connor and Keith Haring paved the way for today’s political and cultural rifts.

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast is marking the 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection ...

The ex-president seems preoccupied with how history will remember his legacy. The human tragedy is that he is unlikely to ...

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.

Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... How is anyone chosen? The famous last stanza of the poem is the answer to the question people didn’t even know how to pose about the river of ...

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first ... project and to have the poem like a little pennant on the great craft you are launching. Success attend you. Seamus Heaney. PS Can you add ...

Still adjusting to the respect she was affording me, I asked, “Seamus who ... Despite the fame that came with Heaney’s body of work, he is by many people best remembered for the words ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early ... to reach a much larger audience than poetry generally enjoys. Readers felt his death ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in his life ... all the unusual capacity to reach a much larger audience than poetry generally enjoys.

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot ... Her conversion came via one of Heaney's most famous poems, Digging, which she picked up outside the classroom.

Heaney is famous for his depictions rural ... Heaney says, “So from the beginning, Portland, poetry, and promise have all been linked together.” Bio: Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as ...