Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature ... Watch a recording of Mr. Heaney giving a reading of his poem, “Digging”, at Villanova University in April 2010.

“The Oul’ McMahons’ Spade”, a 1973 epic by Matt Duggan, also features in McKeagney’s book, although its last verse implies ...

Catholicism provided a bedrock of imagery and inspiration for the Nobel Prize-winning poet, and his defection from it was without bitterness or reproach Catholicism provided a bedrock of imagery ...

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...

The Boston College Irish Studies Program will celebrate the life and work of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)—one of Ireland’s most accomplished and compelling writers—from November 16-18 ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winner and one of the most famous, and finest, poets writing in English, died in August 2013. BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four ...

This event is a collaboration between NMNI and Seamus Heaney HomePlace Centre, as part of a programme of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Heaney’s poetry collection _North_.

Faber will publish The Poems of Seamus Heaney in October 2025, including previously unpublished material. “This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry ...