Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. Heaney's collection "Human Chain" contains poems that are, as always for him, grounded in the physical world but ...

Celebrate Seamus Heaney's birthday with Ireland's best-loved poem Celebrate Seamus Heaney's life by taking a look at one of his most famous poems, "When All The Others Were Away at Mass." ...

In a lecture called “Frontiers of Writing,” Seamus Heaney remembered an evening he spent as the guest of an Oxford college in May 1981. A “quintessentially Oxford event,” he called it: He ...

Seamus Heaney Letters Collection Offers a Scoop of the Nobel Laureate — but No More Unfortunately, the editor readily concedes to the censoring eye of the publishing powers that be as well as to the ...

Seamus Heaney’s collection North turns 50 next month, but does it still have relevance for today’s readers and critics? In advance of a major conference to mark the milestone at Queen‘s ...

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.