Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and is considered the greatest Irish poet of the latter half of the 20th century. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes to support this claim, ...

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 ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...

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 ...

IrishCentral is revisiting Seamus Heaney’s deeply moving sonnet, which was voted Ireland’s best-loved poem in RTÉ’s 2015 A Poem for Ireland poll. The poem’s tender memory of the poet and his mother ...

Heaney at a family party in 1979. bc-burnslibrary, CC BY-NC-ND Seamus Heaney’s final poem has been published just over a year after his death. Finished ten days before he died aged 74 in August 2013, ...

One of the last poems written by County Londonderry-born Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been published in the Guardian and Irish Times newspapers. The Guardian describes In a Field as a ...