Today marks the US publication by Farrar Straus and Giroux of 100 Poems, a selection of one hundred of Seamus Heaney’s best-loved poems – spanning his career, from first collection to last – as chosen by the poet’s family.
Read moreListen Now Again Live Concerts
To celebrate the first hugely successful year of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre at College Green, in Dublin, a series of free lunchtime concerts is taking place at 1pm every Thursday from now until the end of September.
Read more‘Dear Mr Heaney…’ Tales from the Faber archives
In a new history of the firm founded by his grandfather, Toby Faber delves into the Faber archives to tell the inside story of this great publishing house. Here, the legendary poetry editor Charles Monteith writes to a young Seamus Heaney, while a few years later, Heaney himself directs Monteith towards an aspiring poet by the name of Muldoon…
Read moreMarking 80 years
Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 – tomorrow would have been his 80th birthday.
Read moreNew film about Seamus Heaney announced
For the past six months, filming has been taking place - from Bellaghy to Boston to Dublin - for a new feature-length documentary about the life and work of Seamus Heaney, provisionally titled Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens.
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