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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today. The Poems of Seamus Heaney contains over 700 poems in total, including all 12 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 ...

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at Mass ...

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and is considered the greatest Irish poet of the latter half of the 20th century. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes to support this claim, ...