Photograph by Mariana Cook, 2001. This text was delivered as the eulogy at Seamus Heaney’s funeral, which took place in Dublin on September 2, 2013. I called the Heaney house once years ago. Maybe ...
Via RTÉ Arena, Ruth Negga reads Seamus Heaney's poem Postscript, from his collection The Spirit Level - listen above. The recording was made in conjunction with the Heaney Estate, to mark the release ...
Seamus Heaney strode the world of Irish poetry like a Colossus. When he died on 30th August 2013, his friends and family felt a personal loss and it was a tremendous loss, too, to fans of his poetry ...
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. We were reflecting in the night last week on the passing of good people and fine times when one of ...
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