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 ...

Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who garnered ...

Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, has died aged 74, after a short illness, his family said on Friday. Northern Ireland-born Heaney, ...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet who died last month, was supposed to have gone to Emory University next February for the opening of a special exhibit of his papers housed there. His last visit to ...

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 ...

The poet and playwright Seamus Heaney has died at 74, according to multiple media reports Friday. Heaney, who was born in Norther Ireland, was one of the region's most acclaimed writers and was ...

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writer and ...

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 ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died in Dublin at the age of 74. He was one of the world's best-known poets. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We're remembering one of the 20th Century's ...