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"Seamus Heaney" (36 results)
Heaney reads sections from his poems and talks about developing a love for poetry.
A reading of Heaney's poem 'Out of the Bag'.
Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best loved poets, died ten years ago. In the first of four programmes ...
Seamus Heaney, a greatly loved poet when he died ten years ago, wrote great poems of love - love of differen...
Gail McConnell explores how Seamus Heaney, who died ten years ago, responded in his work to The Troubles ...
Seamus Heaney wrote a dozen books of poetry. But throughout his life he also translated poems from othe...
Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74,...
Seamus Heaney talks to Kirsty Wark about his lifelong passion for poetry, living through the Troubles in Northern Ireland and his fascin...
A tribute to Seamus Heaney, exploring his home ground, the boundaries and divisions and 'the possibility of true understanding'.
A portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Six years after his death, his family recalls the experiences that ...
Documentary about the poet Seamus Heaney, exploring the importance of his personal relationships to his writing and relating works to th...
Poet Seamus Heaney, in his first appearance on TV for many years, reads ''Digging'' - the best known poem from his 1st c...
A profile of the work of the poet Seamus Heaney. Aimed at GCSE level students.
To mark the passing of Seamus Heaney, BBC NI dedicates a night of programming drawn from its rich and unique archive.
Seamus Heaney would have been 80 tomorrow. With poets, scholars, a composer and archive of the man himself Front ...
Sue Lawley's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry Seamus Heaney.
Daljit Nagra selects Seamus Heaney - Out of the Marvellous with the Nobel Prize winner in conversation with Leon M...
A king is attacked by a demon. Can anyone help? Poet Seamus Heaney reads his own translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem.
Gavin Esler speaks to one of Ireland's most respected writers, the poet Seamus Heaney. He tells Gavin Esler why, since the start of Ireland's ...
Words, music and imagery of Poet Seamus Heaney and Piper Liam O'Flynn.
Seamus Heaney talks to Patrick Garland on subject 'poetry is a perfect love match between the craft and the gift'.
Poet Seamus Heaney is Bellaghy's most famous son, Helen Mark discovers the place that he wrote about and meets th...
Live from Dublin, Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter discuss a new selection of his work, ch...
Poet Don Paterson reflects with a mixture of admiration and rueful envy o...
An exploration of Seamus Heaney's early poetry.
In series in which poets read Philip Larkin's poems as tribute to him after his death in December 1985, Seam...
Seamus Heaney talks to Kirsty Wark about the influence of ancient history on his poetry.
Documentary celebrating the 60th birthday of Seamus Heaney, with archive footage.
Seamus Heaney reads a section from his book 'Clearances'.
Seamus Heaney discusses his poem 'Requiem for the Croppies'.
Seamus Heaney explores the bogland of Northern Ireland.
Seamus Heaney travels across Lough Erne in Fermanagh, visiting early Christian sites and the settlements of the English and Scots who made their ...
Seamus Heaney takes a look along the banks of the River Bann.
Seamus Heaney reflects on the different ways of celebrating Christmas. Joined by local children at the Ulster Folk Museum in Northern I...
Seamus Heaney talks about and reads poems at various locations in the West of Ireland.
Lawrence Pitkethly examines the cultures of the two traditions of society in Northern Ireland, including History, Education, Sport an...
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