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Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...
Writers Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage have been speaking to the BBC about their love of poetry. In an interview with the Today programme's James Naughtie, Seamus Heaney remembered how he felt ...
Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, will make her only scheduled appearance in Northern Ireland this summer at ...
Former First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is to visit the Seamus Heaney HomePlace for the Northern Ireland launch of ...
The Seamus Heaney Centre in collaboration with BBC Storytellers will be hosting a listening party for our students stories being broadcasted on Radio Ulster. For Saturday 21st June, we will be hearing ...
"With Seamus Coleman, we all love him and we'd all love to still see him around, whether that's in a playing or coaching capacity but his influence on the pitch has waned in the last two years due ...
Paul Heaney, founder and CEO of BossaNova Media, discussed meeting the needs of buyers and maximizing returns to producers as day one of the TV Real Festival wrapped today.
Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.
Inscribed on Seamus Heaney’s headstone, a poetic call to rise above the ordinary, are words forged in the furnace of his own lyrical imagination, “Walk on air against your better judgement.” ...
“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.
This is the second time this year Heaney needed to re-lace mid-start, having done some spike surgery on April 17. At the time, Heaney said it was either the fourth or fifth time it has happened to him ...
Stoke-on-Trent boxer Nathan Heaney says his comeback fight on 26 July in his home city is one he has to win to keep his career going.