Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The ...

This article appears in the January 2025 print edition with the headline “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment.” ...

till a burst of incendiaries hit him flush in the fuel tank. 2010, Seamus Heaney, “Chanson d’aventure”, in Human Chain‎[3], New York: Farrar, Straus relaxed silently as their sweat evaporated into the ...

A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland ...

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on a topic which, as Richard Rankin Russell writes in his essay, “has not always been ...

The festive focused broadcast will take place on Sunday, December 1 with Seamus Heaney’s Christmas poems being the centre of attention. The broadcast will also draw attention to Christmas musical ...

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

which is organised by the Institute in association with The Estate of Seamus Heaney. The actor will recite a poem by the late Irish poet who died in 2013. Born in Derry, Heaney’s first collection of ...

Join English PEN, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney for the announcement of the winner of the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize at Queen’s University, Belfast. Launched in 2024, the ...

While a student at Queen's in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Seamus Heaney wrote poems and stories under the pen-name 'Incertus' (Latin for 'Uncertain'). The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's holds an ...