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The academic and author on the lessons we can learn from those who work the land, acquiring a second career in his 70s – and how he ‘dialogues’ with the spirit of Seamus Heaney

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

Poet and editor of the magazine Aquarius who was a charismatic figure in literary London from the late 1960s

Generosity, warmth and joie de vivre characterise this collection of the great poet’s letters

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The stakes couldn’t be higher. A wider war in the Middle East could embolden Russia in Ukraine and encourage China over Taiwan, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The singer and songwriter opened the plenary session on hunger at the One Young World Summit at the ICC centre.

A woman’s death in Texas is unexpectedly mundane and the nurse’s court case a little too lurid. But there’s lots to love in the true story of a stolen Leonardo and a portrait of the Irish poet

SEVERAL news outlets left readers confused after reporting on a “tribute” from Irish poet Seamus Heaney to Sinead O’Connor ...

The US president’s wide-ranging speech lasted for more than 30 minutes.

Mr Biden became just the fourth president to address a joint sitting of the House of the Oireachtas as he delivered a special 31-minute speech in which he spoke about Ireland and America’s "partnership for the ages".