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

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 ...

Seamus Heaney's words, quoted yet again by Joe Biden at the Democratic Convention, still resonate today. Trinity's live-streamed event will examine his presence in the cultural landscape and the ...

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Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...