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The Seamus Heaney Page
Although last updated in February 2000, this site still has extensive links to useful websites.
Seamus
Heaney, Irish Poet
An extensive biography and bibliography is available in this detailed
and well-organised website.
Seamus
Heaney Websites
A Portal created by "People Who Like Seamus Heaney Sites"
on the StumbleUpon site.
Seamus
Heaney on the Literary History Site
A selective bibliography of open access articles on Seamus Heaney, favoring
signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed
sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors
of Web Sites.
The Seamus Heaney Portal
A virtual reading room on the Irish poet created by Canadian poet, Irena
Aligizakis.
Wikipedia: Seamus Heaney Biography
A detailed up-to-date biography.
Nobel
Prize: Seamus Heaney Biography
This biography was written at the time of the Nobel Prize Award (1995)
and later published in the book series: Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.
Biography:
Seamus Heaney
A useful detailed biography on the Internet Poetry Archive.
Biography:
Seamus Heaney
A useful detailed biography on Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet site.
Seamus
Heaney: Biography and Bibliography
A brief biography and bibliography on the Books and Writers site.
Seamus
Heaney: Biography
A very brief biography on the Dia Art Foundation site.
Seamus
Heaney: Biography
Another brief biography, this time on the American Poets.Org site.
Four Interviews on the BBC
Seamus Heaney interviewed in 1988 and 1998.
Poetic
giant with his feet on the ground
An interview with Erica Wagner in The Times (London) 1998.
Seamus
Heaney in conversation with Grigory Kruzhkov
An interview with a Russian scholar in 2004
Seamus Heaney praises Eminem
Irish poet comments on American rap artist.
Seamus
Heaney: The 5-Minute Interview
The Independent, (London), Jun 3, 2005 by Matthew Beard.
Return
of the Naturalist
Sam Leith of The Telegraph meets
Seamus Heaney at home on the 40th anniversary of the publication of his
first book.
Recent
Radio Ulster Interview
Celebrating the 40th anniversary
of Death of a Naturalist, Marie-Louise speaks to Seamus
Heaney about his formative early years and the influence they had on this
now famous debut collection. Heaney reads Digging
and Mid-Term Break
in the course of the interview.
Recent
BBC Television Interview
In a HardTalk Extra interview
screened on 5th May, Gavin Esler spoke to one of Ireland's most respected
writers, the poet Seamus Heaney.
Bogland
An early nature poem about digging into Ireland's soft wet earth and into
her past.
Digging
A montage of archive
clips of Seamus Heaney "Digging". From BBC NI's "Seamus
Heaney: A life in Pictures" broadcast 15/04/09.
Blackberry
Picking
Another early and popular poem read by the poet.
The
Perch
A short poem read by the poet.
The
Grauballe Man
One of the poems from North about the Bog People.
Seamus
Heaney reading four poems
Mossbawn Sunlight; The Underground; Two Lorries; St Kevin and the Blackbird.
Casualty
Click no 9 on the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Clearances
Seamus Heaney reads the third
sonnet.
Clearances
Seamus Heaney reads the fifth
sonnet.
A
Video Poetry Reading
Seamus Heaney at the Massachussets Institute of Technology in 2002.
Seamus
Heaney on YouTube reading The Underground
Seamus Heaney reads
his poem The Underground at his publishers Faber and Faber on the
occasion of his seventieth birthday and Faber's eightieth.
Interactive Lessons
Three poems by Seamus Heaney on the Skoool site.
Mid-Term
Break Quiz
A Scoilnet series of questions on the poem.
BBC
Bitesize Revision Notes
Notes on three poems including "Digging".
A
Close Reading of Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking”
Lessons on the poem from the ReadWriteThink site.
Lesson
Plans for Mid-Term Break and Blackberry Picking
Found on the English Online site.
Seamus
Heaney - study guide
Andrew Moore's teaching resource site.
Teachnet
site
Notes on Heaney and the poem
"The Early Purges".
© All poems copyright Seamus Heaney.
© 2nd Year
English Class; Moyle Park College 2007.
Links editor for the project: Ayokunle Onamusi.