James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Thomas McCarthy are among the poets assembled in a wonderful book of writings inspired by music, says Alan O’Riordan

The family of Seamus Heaney have said he would have been proud to see a new arts and literary centre where he spent his childhood.

Seamus Heaney HomePlace, the new arts and literary centre in Bellaghy, has been officially opened by the Heaney family this evening.

Seamus Heaney's life and work is being celebrated in a new cultural centre in Co Derry.

New portraits of two of the North’s literary greats have been hung in the home of the Stormont Assembly.

Almost £1m (€1.35m) has been pledged by Stormont ministers towards the construction of a Seamus Heaney arts centre in his home village.

Seamus Heaney’s famous line to “walk on air against your better judgement” has been inscribed as an epitaph on his gravestone.

It is too early, yet, to think about the literary meaning of the unexpected passing of poet Seamus Heaney nearly a year ago says Thomas McCarthy.

U2 frontman Bono and singer Paul Simon said Seamus Heaney should be an inspiration to people on their travels as a tapestry dedicated to the late poet was unveiled yesterday.

IN 1970, fresh out of St Colman’s boarding school, I attended UCC.

Former US president Bill Clinton praised Seamus Heaney as “our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives” and a “powerful voice for peace” in a tribute.

Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness. The farmer’s son died in hospital in Dublin aged 74.

As news broke of the passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney yesterday, tributes were shared from around the world. Here are some of the many.

It is simply unbelievable that Seamus Heaney is dead. It is astonishing and it must be untrue; untrue in the deepest, most immortal sense of that word.

A master poet and family man, a Nobel laureate and friend, a guest of royalty and farmer’s son, Seamus Heaney had a life which was a smooth blend of the ordinary and extraordinary.

There were many heavy hearts in Seamus Heaney’s spiritual home last night, but none heavier than Barney Devlin’s.

While the staff of the Irish Examiner wishes to join with the family of Seamus Heaney in mourning his passing, it is also important that he should be celebrated as one of the world’s greatest men of letters.