It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize winning Irish poet, died in Dublin Friday at 74. “The poet and Nobel Laureate died in hospital in Dublin this morning after a short illness,” said a statement released ...

Few have used the English language to greater effect than Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who died today in Dublin. He was 74. Heaney was a Nobel laureate and the son of a farmer, a poet reluctantly drawn ...

With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s creative process ...

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 ...

To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 ...

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books by the thousands. He won the Nobel Prize for ...

DUBLIN — Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within ...

DUBLINDUBLIN — Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s foremost poet who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, has died after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within ...