Seamus Huffman

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptiv

Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book reprints the author's chosen

"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adven

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. I

Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923

Harper discovers that the addition of a new baby to the family does not mean there is less love to go around, but instead there is more to share. When

The contributors to A View of Venice draw on a high-resolution digital scan of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodcut View of Venice printed in the year 1500 to