Liam O’Flynn, a master at coaxing mournful, inspirational and even rollicking music out of the uilleann pipes, arguably the most difficult instrument to play in the arsenal of Irish music, died March ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

During his life, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney was a regular visitor to Tulsa, thanks to his close friendship with Darcy O'Brien, a fellow writer and professor at the University of Tulsa.

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...

For The Atlantic’s January cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about growing up with the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet ...