Seamus Heaney

Laggan poet Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha has been named a new Seamus Heaney Fellow at Queen’s

Laggan poet Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha named new Seamus Heaney Fellow

The new Seamus Heaney mural.

Seamus Heaney mural unveiled

Etain and Midir.

The Midir & Etain Mosaic

The late Seamus Heaney.

Listen: ‘Bright Side of The Road' unveils 'magical' Seamus Heaney special

The Last Supper on the front of St Theresa's Catholic Church.

The Last Supper, Sion Mills

The Handy Wee Derry Quiz Book contains hundreds of questions in dozens of categories, all with a Derry/Donegal flavour.

First dedicated Derry quiz book in nearly 40 years out in time for Christmas

History of Street Art Workshop Bishop Street.

Derry to get a Seamus Heaney mural from young artists and Peaball

Brian Friel pictured in Derry in the 1950s

Friel’s Volunteers and Heaney’s North to be brought to life on 50th anniversary

The Mayor will his counterparts from across NI launching the competition this week. photo: Brian Thompson.

Call out to Derry & Strabane entrepreneurs

Dooey with Hornhead in the distance.

42 photographs of the spectacular Rosguill peninsula and Downings

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Cambridge lecturer. (Pacemaker)

Derry to celebrate 50 years of Seamus Heaney’s North

Left, Seamus Heaney, Venice, Italy, 2008. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images) and right, Brian Friel at the Broadway Opening of 'Faith Healer After Party in 2006 in NYC. (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images)

Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney to be celebrated with major NW festival

The Walled City Music Festival returns this March for its seventeenth edition, bringing world-class classical music to the heart of cultural life in Derry.

Something for the classical music fans

Iranian-Canadian curator Elham Puriya Mehr was in Derry recently conducting research with local people for her ‘Coffeehouses as an Image’ project in partnership with the Void Art Centre.

Iranian-Canadian curator Elham Puriya Mehr talks Derry and coffeehouses

Raymond Wilson's new book front and back cover.

Raymond Watson to launch ‘What Sort Of Artist Are You?’ at The Playhouse

Back Cover

Book Launch with Raymond Watson and Steve Lally
Title: ‘What Sort Of Artist Are You?’ By: Raymond Watson Publisher: Lúbaan Publications Introduction by: Steve Lally, writer and storyteller. Full colour. 120 photographs, 184 pages. Price: £15
Raymond Watson

David Oliver at the newly opened Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast.David and his wife Jenny have travelled back to Belfast this week for the opening of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s.

Seamus Heaney the 'popular, very social lad'

Lord Mayor Micky Murray, First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Marie Heaney, Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Ian Greer and Professor Glenn Patterson

New chapter for the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s as it opens new building

Bridie and Damán Brown.

New documentary examines investigation into Co.Derry man's murder

The excavation of the 'bog body' in Bellaghy

2,500 year old body of boy aged 13-17 found in Derry bog

The Hellas Ensemble

Evening of music and poetry exploring Seamus Heaney's relationship with Greece

A passenger book of shipping agent J & J Cooke listing the names of those leaving Foyle Port for Philadelphia, Québec and St. John, New Brunswick between March 1858 and July 1867.

Historic documents to be put on display at Derry Central Library by PRONI

A road runs across the border cutting through Forestry near Eshbrack Bog. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Human sacrifice - A warning from the Irish bog

Mrs. Caroline McLaughlin, who will take over as principal of St. Columb's College in January.

Caroline McLaughlin appointed new principal of St. Columb’s College

The late Seamus Heaney

Eastwood withdraws name from Campbell Heaney tribute motion referencing flags

The Hellas Ensemble is composed of a cast of Irish and international musicians combining strings and woodwind. The ensemble musicians include: Nikos Petsakos - Greek, Tri-chordo Bouzouki, Martin Coyle - Irish flat-back Bouzouki, Robert Peoples - Viola and Violin, Lucia McGinnis - Irish Harp, Marc Forbes - Bass, Paul Cutliffe - Uilleann Pipes, Clarinet and Whistle and Amanda Koser - Flute.

Martin Coyle and Nikos Petsakos, to honour Seamus Heaney in Paxos

The Dryad by Friz, Central Drive, Creggan.

2 stunning new Derry murals unveiled in Creggan
Two stunning new murals has been created in Derry as part of Féile’s Graffiti On The Walls art project.
Brendan McDaid

The new Féile mural on Central Drive in Creggan

New Creggan mural incorporates Seamus Heaney into Derry landscape

TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden (C) reacts as he arrives to deliver a speech at the Dail Eireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, at Leinster House in Dublin, on April 13, 2023, during his four day trip to Northern Ireland and Ireland. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden quotes ‘favourite poem’ from St. Columb’s old boy Seamus Heaney

US President Joe Biden

Joe Biden provides details of trip to mark 25th anniversary of GFA

US President Joe Biden. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Joe Biden to visit the North for 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement

Risteard Mac Gabhann, on right, with Pádraig Ó Mianáin, Tony Mullan and Mary Ellen O'Doherty during Mary's 99th birthday celebrations in The Derby Bar in 2007.

Derry musician Risteard Mac Gabhann releases Great Irish Songbook

A dolphin in Derry

Mick Conway says humans would benefit by becoming closer to nature, just as thei...

Seamus Heaney.

Exclusive Seamus Heaney archive to be exhibited at Bellaghy centre

Rev. Michael Canny (second from left) has been leading prayers at the annual Bloody Sunday memorial service in the Bogside for 40 years. He's pictured here in 2015 with, from left, Bishop Donal McKeown, Rev. David Jennings (Church of England) and Rev. David Latimer (Presbyterian Church).

Bloody Sunday 50: Families have succeeded in setting the record straight

Rosemount and Model pupils lead by example as COP26 takes place

The late Seamus Heaney.

Seamus Heaney controversially claimed for Dungiven

Michael Graham, Seamus Heaney's GAC captain in action against the Moscow Shamrocks GAC, during their recent friendly at FC Lokomotiv Moscow Stadium.

Creggan man names new GAA club in Moscow after Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney

The late Seamus Deane who has passed away aged 81.

Tributes paid to the late Seamus Deane who has died aged 81

Participants in ‘Proud to Be’- Faye, Emmet, Ezra, Caolan, Glen, Jen, Jak and Rory. 'Proud to Be' will broadcast live from The Playhouse on Friday, August 28 at 8pm for Foyle Pride 2020. www.derryplahouse.co.uk

‘Proud to Be’ to relate real stories of LGBTQ+ isolation and resilience

John Hume pictured with the bronze of himself by Derry Born Sculptor John Sherlock in St. Columbs College. Photo: John Harrison.

St. Columb's Principal Finbar Madden says school community in mourning over deat...

Edel O'Donnell, organiser, with Derry Girls actress Jamie Lee O'Donnell who took part in the Darkness Into Light walk at dawn in Derry in 2018.

Thousands to take part in Darkness Into Light across North West

Nancy Pelosi addressing the Oireachtas.

Video: Nancy Pelosi hails Hume and McGuinness and gets ovation with Heaney quote...

Void hosts an exhibition about our ‘borders’

'˜The Last of the Name' now released on DVD

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Queen's University, Belfast

IN FULL: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's Belfast speech on north-south relations

Video: Barnier sees light in Seamus Heaney's Bealtaine-inspired ode to Europe an...

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall pictured in the Seamus Heaney HomePlace on Tuesday. (Photo: Kelvin Boyce/Presseye)

IN PICTURES: Charles and Camilla tour Seamus Heaney centre

The A6 upgrade

Green light for A6 as High Court dismisses Whooper Swan and Seamus Heaney challe...

'˜Huge support' in Derry for A6 despite Whooper Swan and Seamus Heaney concerns

Loreto Douglas.

Former colleague pays tribute to Surestart founder Loreto Douglas who died in Gl...

Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize for literature

Seamus Heaney died in 2013.

Seamus Heaney: three years after his death and still touching lives

Derry poet Marilyn wins '˜Seamus Heaney Award'

The Northern Ireland Year of Food and Drink 2016 is celebrating all things local this month by running a food inspired poetry competition and asking everyone to write a fun poem inspired by our wonderful local food and drink.

Ode to Food: Tourism NI wants you to get creative about your love of food and dr...

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