When I learned that the Irish poet Seamus Heaney had passed away I made a long overdue trip to the local bookstore to purchase a copy of his Beowulf translation. I had little knowledge of the man or ...

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...

The late Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads from his own translation of Beowulf.

Nobel prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney died today. When the poet, who is also known for translating Beowulf, received the David Cohen prize for lifetime achievement in 2009 ...