Seamus Heaney’s death at the age of 74 is both shocking and premature. No part of his poetry seemed finished; no aspect of his work looked to be over. Human Chain, his recent volume, for all the ...

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 ...

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, widely regarded as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, has died aged 74. A statement from Heaney's family said he died in a Dublin hospital after a "brief ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, died shortly after 7:30 am on Friday in Dublin, according to the Irish Times. His death followed a short illness. Heaney was ...

THE eyes first. Kind, brown, narrowing as they smiled. Eyes that had squinted into wind and through smoke: that had seen a river rat “tracing its wet/Arcs on the stones”, wind “quicksilvering” a ...

It is a natural, perhaps inevitable reaction, when confronted with news of a star, to try to bask in his or her reflected light. “Noted Irish poet had long and deep ties to Harvard,” went the subtitle ...