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 ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winner and one of the most famous, and finest, poets writing in English, died in August 2013. BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four ...

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber ... come and stay with the family awhile.” Probably never thought I’d take him up ...

His mother was a cousin of Heaney’s grandmother. He was born just across the road from the house in which he died and over his long life he lived ... his father in the family forge.

Writer Caitlin Flanagan’s friendship with Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney profoundly shaped her life and her Catholic faith. She writes about their bond in The Atlantic. Keep KCRW ...

The family of a police officer who died after he collapsed during the Belfast marathon last year have urged runners in this year's race to be aware of the health risks. Stephen Heaney, who was 50 ...