Seamus Heaney

High Street, a new painting by Belgium-born artist Joel Simon which can be seen at the University of Atypical Gallery in Royal Avenue.

Extraordinary exhibition charts journey into the heart of Belfast nightlife

Bob Geldof speaking at the One Young World summit at the ICC in Belfast. Credit: One Young World/PA Wire

Geldof calls for new solutions to global food crisis at Belfast summit

An artist's impression of their £4.9 million new landmark venue for the Seamus Heaney Centre, which will open for staff, students and the public early next year. The reimagined space at the listed buildings is in University Road and Mount Charles in Belfast, which is close to the campus's main Lanyon Building. Image: Queen's University Belfast /PA Wire

Queen’s University unveils plans for new £4.9m Seamus Heaney Centre

Shortlisted writers with the prize judges pictured from left to right are: Molly Twomey, judges Stephen Sexton, Nick Laird and Leontia Flynn, Stav Poleg, Mark Pajak, Holly Hopkins and Rosamund Taylor.

Mark Pajak wins Seamus Heaney poetry prize

Out of season strawberries flown here from far flung places are very disappointing. They may look like a strawberry but they don’t taste anything like a variety you’d get here in summer. Picture: PA

Local strawberries are now in the shops and are well worth the wait

The late, great Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Tenth anniversary of death of Seamus Heaney marked by writers and musicians

Heaney, Adult and Schoolboy, in HomePlace, Bellaghy

The Roamer: Gobbledygook confirmed one of mankind’s greatest feats

An Occasional Tipple With Raymond Gleug

On the hunt for blackberries and beautiful wine

Seamus Heaney acknowledged the importance of the 1972 Education Act to his generation

The 1947 Education Act was Stormont’s most significant legislation up until 1972

A full line up of entertainment at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace this Autumn

A packed programme of entertainment at the Seamus Heaney Homeplace this Autumn

It is hard to take four swabs from the back of your throat, writes Ben Lowry

Ben Lowry: People embrace measures such as jabs and tests to avoid lockdowns

The late Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney

Ben Lowry: The absence of any unionists at Seamus Heaney’s funeral was appalling

Island Voices lecture series returns online

An Occasional Tipple With Raymond Gleug

Home to berry crumble and wonderful wine

Councillor Cathal Mallaghan at the refurbished Seamus Heaney HomePlace

Seamus Heaney HomePlace unveils new library and digital archive

Gerardine and Eugene Kielt, Laurel Villa, Magherafelt

NI couples to still embrace love and business on Valentine's Day
Owning your dream business certainly comes with its challenges, but for those who decide to take the journey with their spouse by their side, having someone to share the ups and downs can be a huge benefit.

Photography project inspired by Heaney

Top row (l-r) Poet Medbh McGuckian, artist Rita Duffy, musician Neil Hannon. Bottow row (l-r) Author Lynne Graham, Oscar Wilde, Derek Mahon

New documentary asks does Carson deserve repuation as the man who ruined Wilde?

Thomas Carnduff, a Sandy Row-raised, Dublin-educated writer was an Orangeman who signed the 1912 Covenant, served in World War I and had a play staged at the Abbey in 1932

The shipyard worker, Orangeman and poet: a face for Northern Ireland at 100

Letter to the editor

We must continue to celebrate the life of Seamus Heaney, who belongs to us all

Seamus Heaney.

Seamus Heaney was 'a poet for all people'

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who now writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Nationalists do not own the poet Seamus Heaney

Covid is being used to challenge the whole system of exams, which are being depicted as inherently unfair. If this succeeds everything from grammar schools to elite universities will be damaged, perhaps destroyed

Ben Lowry: Covid restrictions will be used to undermine grammar schools

The image of Seamus Heaney being used to mark 100 years since the creation of Northern Irelrand

Unionist dismay at rejection of Seamus Heaney as image of NI Beyond 2021

Seamus Heaney HomePlace launches virtual arts programme

Playhouse in Londonderry. The theatre has made an appeal for items with a connection to a loved ones killed in Northern Ireland's troubled past

New theatre production to tell story of the worst year of the Troubles

Poet Seamus Heaney was among the figures John captured in bronze. Photos with this article by Harrison Photography & Mike McCann.

Whiteabbey sculptor was internationally recognised for work with famous faces
Had John Sherlock embarked on his career as a sculptor in his twenties rather than almost 50 years later, his name would likely now feature in lists of Ireland’s most celebrated artists.

Anthony Toner

Seamus Heaney HomePlace announces new ‘virtual’ performance programme

Food, drama and a love of Seamus Heaney poetry