For many, the holidays are a time to rekindle connections with family and friends. Sometimes that means thinking about the influences of those we’ve lost. For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who ...
Seamus Heaney’s Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 [1] makes it possible to form something like a comprehensive picture of the Irish poet’s work. Slowly but unmistakably over the past thirty ...
It was an unseasonably warm night, and the upper room of the white clapboard building on Kirkland Street was lit by candles and decorated with a dozen pumpkins ready for carving. The Sanctum, as the ...
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 ...
Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC. On Monday, ...
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Madeleine Keane on books: Making a new year’s resolution to keep a reading record and plans to visit an elemental Seamus Heaney event in Dublin
Given my line of work, I’m frequently asked for book recommendations but, possibly because I devour so many of them, I can never remember. So one of my many resolutions for 2026 is to keep a reading ...
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A pair of golden anniversary celebrations for Friel and Heaney
An unprecedented five-year theatrical celebration, building to the centenary of one of Ireland’s great literary figures, ...
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