In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...

On the 40th anniversary of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize, Cambridge University Press has published Seamus Heaney and Catholicism, an in-depth study by Irish writer Gary Wade examining the ...

The revered author passed away in a Dublin hospital. By The Associated Press Seamus Heaney - P 2013 DUBLIN – To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...