(RNS) The disappearance of Irish poet Seamus Heaney — so unexpected and jolting — left a silence and a stilled a pen. There would be no more new words. And yet the poetic embrace he’s left as a legacy ...

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 ...

Photograph by Mariana Cook, 2001. This text was delivered as the eulogy at Seamus Heaney’s funeral, which took place in Dublin on September 2, 2013. I called the Heaney house once years ago. Maybe ...

When I was a young man I was a poet, and no young poet in the history of the race has been luckier than I was, to have Seamus Heaney as a teacher and then a friend. It’s crazy luck, really. It’s the ...

Poet Seamus Heaney, 74, Dug the 'Wideness of Language' With His Pen… Arts Aug 30 Nobel Laureate, World Famous Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth ...

With the death of Nobel-Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, we listen back to our 2006 interview with him. File photo of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Heaney, whose lyrical works portray the pain ...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet who died last month, was supposed to have gone to Emory University next February for the opening of a special exhibit of his papers housed there. His last visit to ...

Henry Hart, the Hickman professor of English and humanities at William & Mary, a former poet laureate of Virginia and the noted author of several literary biographies, has written a second book about ...

When Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, in 1995, I was living in Dublin during a semester off from college, working in a crowded, narrow restaurant at the heart of the city (long days, no tips; ...

Seamus Heaney, the poet whose deeply felt descriptions of rural life in Ireland managed to carry larger echoes of the island’s violent sectarian split, died Friday at the age of 74, his publisher said ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poetry critic Tess Taylor about the publication of the sixth book of The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney and published posthumously. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney died a ...

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is preparing for a milestone in the New Year, his 70th birthday. The Irish poet is out with a new book about his life. It's called, "Stepping Stones." I asked Heaney to ...