With the death of Nobel-Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, we listen back to our 2006 interview with him. File photo of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Heaney, whose lyrical works portray the pain ...

And, in fact, it often seems that our digital communications platforms–best represented by the internet–are a kind of wizardry. The internet allows me to transmit, reproduce, and retrieve meaning ...

(RNS) The disappearance of Irish poet Seamus Heaney — so unexpected and jolting — left a silence and a stilled a pen. There would be no more new words. And yet the poetic embrace he’s left as a legacy ...

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 ...

Henry Hart, the Hickman professor of English and humanities at William & Mary, a former poet laureate of Virginia and the noted author of several literary biographies, has written a second book about ...

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 ...

University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The world of letters is in shock to learn that Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s best-loved poet, died on Friday at age 74. “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 ...