Attraction allowing people listen to Heaney’s poems in significant locations opens in Derry
Open Ground features listening posts and panels explaining each place’s link to Heaney’s poetry
‘Pride that spoke of both continents’: Biden on Irish links
US president says looks forward to working with Taoiseach to address ‘great challenges’
Sonja Landweer obituary: Visionary in craft and design in Ireland
Dutch artist drew, painted, made prints, jewellery, bronze works and pottery
Watch Marie Heaney reading The Seed Cutters, by Seamus Heaney
The writer has recorded the poem as part of a series for Poetry Day Ireland 2019
St Brigid’s Day: Irish women to be celebrated around the world
Events celebrating female talent to take place from London to Warsaw to Washington
Jewellery shop clocks up 200 years in Wicklow town
Gelletlie’s, which is also a watchmakers, was a favourite of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney exhibition opens at new Dublin cultural centre
Poet’s archive at College Green reveals ‘intimacies that defined Seamus the man’
How Seamus Heaney wrote: First look at a new exhibition
Exhibition on late Nobel laureate unveiled at new College Green cultural centre
‘Sweeney’ – the result of a series of serendipitous events
‘I was always mindful that this is a song cycle,’ says composer Neil Martin of adapting Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Sweeney’s Astray’ for song
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Get your own poem on Poetry Day Ireland
As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ
Family of Seamus Heaney open centre dedicated to late poet
£4.25m Bellaghy facility a permanent exhibition about life and work of Nobel Laureate
Marie Heaney: ‘I had a very public grief’
Three years after her husband’s death, the writer is ‘beginning to feel like myself again’
A big day for Dubray: ‘A bookshop in Bray? This is never going to work!’
As Dubray Books holds a literary evening to celebrate its rise from a small shop opened in 1972 to become Ireland’s largest dedicated bookseller, MD Maria Dickenson tells its story
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