The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) spent a good part of 40 years teaching in this country, yet he remained an Irishman, having been raised in Northern Ireland and living there as well as in the ...

The revered author passed away in a Dublin hospital. By The Associated Press Seamus Heaney - P 2013 DUBLIN – To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney's poems have been toasted as "reports from the heart" at a literary "wake" for the late Irish poet and Nobel laureate, bringing together poets, writers, actors, ...

Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems... Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The ...

Tom Paulin has won the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 for Namanlagh, his first collection in over a decade. The £5,000 award was ...

The winner of the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 is Tom Paulin's "Namanlagh." The prize was announced at a ceremony held at the ...

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books... Poet Seamus Heaney Was A Teacher, Critic, ...

In some of his most important speeches over the course of a long career, Joe Biden has repeatedly quoted the work of Seamus Heaney, an Irish, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright. And while ...

To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 ...