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

Housman was, as Auden put it in his fine, admiring poem, the ‘Latin Scholar of his generation’, but his approach to classical literature was ostentatiously arid, as though deliberately to keep ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

Earlier this week, I threw my hat into the ring for Andrew Heaney as one of the solutions for the Blue Jays to shift focus after losing out on Roki Sasaki. The offer still stands. The left-hander ...

Veterans Andrew Heaney and Jose Quintana have garnered little if any buzz in the rumor mill to this point, but at this late stage in the offseason they stand out among the remaining crop of ...

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 ...

A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11 years ago. Since 2013, James ...

Seamus Coleman joined from Sligo Rovers in 2009 and became a first team regular after a loan spell at Blackpool, being nominated for the 2011 PFA Young Player of the Year Award. He has made more ...

A dog was up in paws after seeing his dad doing the very thing he kept getting yelled at for: digging. Emma Lawrence, known on TikTok as @elcreativecontent, heard her rescue dog barking outside ...

Some years back, I fell in love with poetry. Books of poems by Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and others take up space on my bookshelves, and in my travel bag for my train journeys.

The Winter/Spring 2025 Arts Programme will feature a stellar line-up of literary music and talent including award-winning American poet Billy Collins and bestselling Scottish artist Barbara Dickson.

Seamus Coleman called on his Everton team-mates to do what they can to make the most of Goodison Park's final months in a rallying call to his squad. The club captain was pulled from the ...