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

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast is moving to a new landmark building as part of a brilliant new era. Here, we take a look at its history and relationship with Heaney, a graduate ...

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

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast will be moving to a new landmark building and will include an exhibition area to display the Seamus Heaney archive held by Queen's. Established ...

In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other ...

Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died at the age of 74. The writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, had been suffering from ill health. "The death has taken place of Seamus Heaney ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature a talk and reading by Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, the late Seamus Heaney from Portland Arts & Lectures in 2002. Heaney opens with ...