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, ...

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 ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not long after suffering a stroke in 2006, Seamus Heaney made a surprise appearance at a poetry festival in Dún ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. There will soon be a huge volume of collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (1,100 ...