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 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 ...

A major volume of poetry by Seamus Heaney includes previously unseen works.

It was an unseasonably warm night, and the upper room of the white clapboard building on Kirkland Street was lit by candles and decorated with a dozen pumpkins ready for carving. The Sanctum, as the ...

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s collection North, which saw the poet directly address the Northern Ireland Troubles for the first time, is to be marked. A three-day ...

The Boston College Irish Studies Program will celebrate the life and work of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)—one of Ireland’s most accomplished and compelling writers—from November 16-18 ...

Villanova University's College for Liberal Arts and Sciences in Pennsylvania will welcome scholars from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast for a week in March. Villanova's Center ...

Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was a Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator. “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” (2025) is a volume of his collected verse. In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath ...