A native of Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. The following excerpts are taken from interviews conducted with him in 1986 and shortly after he won the Nobel in 1996. Poetry summons you. That's been my own experience. The real difficulty about being a poet is not in the writing. It's surviving the silence, surviving lack of … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney Poetic Champion
Irish poets
Book Review | Poets from the North of Ireland
By Marianne Delaney June 1991
One hundred years ago this month, Dr. Douglas Hyde [An Craoibhin Aoibhinn] visited the United States for the first time. He was in Boston and New York from June 3 to June 25 on his way home to Ireland from the University of New Brunswick in Canada where he had spent nine months as an interim professor of French, German and English literature. On the night of June 16 in New … [Read more...] about Book Review | Poets from the North of Ireland