Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel Prize winner who published more than a dozen major poetry collections and translations over the course of his lifetime, died on Friday. He was 74. Though his voice ...

Seamus Heaney, who died Friday morning in Dublin, published poetry for roughly half a century. As he wrote in “Digging,” one of his most famous poems, that was his work. While his father and ...

It is no accident that Seamus Heaney’s selected poems is titled “Opened Ground,” since writing poems for this most remarkable farm boy was a kind of digging: “Between my finger and my thumb / The ...

When Seamus Heaney died in a Dublin hospital last summer, his death plunged Ireland into a depth of grief unequaled on that island. The news was a sad west wind that did “catch the heart off guard,” ...

In 1964, an intrepid editor at the New Statesman magazine published three poems by the then-unknown Irish poet Seamus Heaney. One of them, "Digging," which opens his first poetry collection, is a ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and one of the 20th century's greatest poets, has died aged 74. Watch a recording of Mr. Heaney giving a reading of his poem, ...

Seamus Heaney died in a Dublin hospital in August 2013 at the age of 74, but he will live on for generations in thousands of classrooms, including my own. I have been teaching Heaney’s poetry to inner ...

THE cat was lucky the box was too big to push through the letterbox, for had it landed on him nine lives would have been no use. The box in question contained the life’s work of a writer who ...

"Four Sides of Seamus Heaney," debuted Sunday, August 20, 2023, and comprises of four programs, each focusing on a different aspect of Heaney's work, each with a different presenter with personal ...