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

Faber will publish The Poems of Seamus Heaney in October 2025, including previously unpublished material.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 ...

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 ...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC.

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children Rebecca ...

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of North, Heaney’s poetry collection that explores themes related ... To mark this significant milestone, Seamus Heaney HomePlace will host a series of special events ...

"We were none of us in the front line." Longley and Heaney had attended some of the civil rights marches in the late 1960s. Later, in a BBC Northern Ireland documentary he said he was "overwhelmed and ...

To enter, send one poem – and only one poem – of ... or follow a family-member through time, as Seamus Heaney does in Digging, skipping through the decades in a single line, when his father ...