When Seamus Heaney died in a Dublin hospital last summer, his death plunged Ireland into a depth of grief unequaled on that island. The news was a sad west wind that did “catch the heart off guard,” ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel Prize winner who published more than a dozen major poetry collections and translations over the course of his lifetime, died on Friday. He was 74. Though his voice ...

Seamus Heaney died in a Dublin hospital in August 2013 at the age of 74, but he will live on for generations in thousands of classrooms, including my own. I have been teaching Heaney’s poetry to inner ...

It is no accident that Seamus Heaney’s selected poems is titled “Opened Ground,” since writing poems for this most remarkable farm boy was a kind of digging: “Between my finger and my thumb / The ...

Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, son of the farm and County Derry, put his spade in forty years ago with a first poem called "Digging." It was dense and sure, with a sense of place and ...

One of my favorite stories to tell is about the interview I wanted most, but didn’t get. It was 2005 and I had just signed a contract to write what would be my first book — a collection of profiles of ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

Seamus Heaney was already one of Ireland’s best-known poets when the sectarian violence of “The Troubles” swept through Northern Ireland in the 1970s and ‘80s. An Irish Republican activist spotted him ...