“As lovingly assembled as a sonnet.” Ireland take on Portugal tonight in a World Cup qualifier that, let’s be brutally honest here, we’re probably not going to win. Don’t get me wrong, it could happen. I want it to happen. I don’t think it will happen. The point is, Ireland has pulled off incredible feats before and […]

4 years ago

The passage has also been quoted by Bill Clinton in the past. Democratic candidate Joe Biden has quoted Seamus Heaney in his latest campaign video, just days ahead of the US presidential election. In the new video, Biden calls on voters to vote for him on 3 November, and he used the words of the […]

5 years ago

The Nobel Prize-winner is one of Ireland’s greatest minds. His work at the time of The Troubles was incredible. BBC2 will air a feature-length documentary about the life and work of Seamus Heaney, the beloved Nobel Prize-winner. Directed by Adam Low and Dermot Lavery, Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens will feature interviews with […]

6 years ago

One of the greatest Irish minds of all time. His work at the time of The Troubles was absolutely incredible. The BBC will be making a feature-length film about the life and work of Seamus Heaney. After his first collection of poems, Death Of A Naturalist, was published by Faber & Faber in 1966, Heaney […]

7 years ago

‘He wove Irish strife and soil into silken verse.’

13 years ago

Taoiseach Enda Kenny gets a bad rap on his own patch at times, but can there be a bigger blow to his reputation than to have his gender questioned in one of the world’s biggest newspapers?

13 years ago