The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann has appointed Claire Power as its new director as the organisation returns to its permanent ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Renowned Irish language poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi has died at the age of 99. Máire's family announced her death "with great sadness" in a statement. “Máire passed away peacefully at home on Saturday ...

When Prince Charles paid a visit to Cork in Ireland in 2018, he quoted a poem by celebrated Irish poet Pádraig ” Tuama, who grew up in the city. When ” Tuama called his parents to tell them the ...

"While the medical corps has looked after our bodies, poets looked after many of our souls during lockdown." In difficult times the Irish psyche often finds comfort in the words of our poets. This ...

The Irish word file - spelled F-I-L-E - means both poet and seer. Well, for Irish poet Padraig O Tuama, seeing the world through poetry is a calling, whether that's his own poetry or someone else's.

A recent Georgetown graduate curated a new exhibition in Lauinger Library on renowned Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Chris Kenny’s (GRD ’23) “Paul Muldoon: The Joseph M. Hassett Collection,” which lies ...

An Irish poet with a substantial following on both sides of the Atlantic will be coming to Little Rock later this month to speak at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Little Rock. Pádraig Ó Tuama will ...

Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems... Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish ...

In some of his most important speeches over the course of a long career, Joe Biden has repeatedly quoted the work of Seamus Heaney, an Irish, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright. And while ...

In America, St. Patrick’s Day has somehow transformed into a holiday where people swill green beer while the bar plays the same Dropkick Murphys’ songs over and over again. If you’re young enough to ...