Seamus Heaney

After discovering a photograph taken with Seamus Heaney at a Nobel prize celebration, Anne Hailes tracked down the other person in the picture - writer and storyteller Frank Gilligan

The Public Record Office Northern Ireland is taking the historical documents on tour as part of events to mark its centenary.

Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Radio 4 He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was one of the greatest poets writing in the English language, but Seamus Heaney was ours first.

THIS island has such a long tradition of marking anniversaries that the late politician and intellectual Conor Cruise O'Brien once warned: "We are commemorating ourselves to death.

More than 100,000 people from across the world have visited Bellaghy the home village of the late Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney in the last seven years.

The original centre was opened at the university campus by the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 2004.

The 10th anniversary of the passing of Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney will be celebrated with a series of programmes on BBC Radio 4, each focusing on a different aspect of his work

A friend and I had been talking about Michael Viney, the Irish Times journalist and natural history writer, in the office the other day.