Tag Archives: SEAMUS HEANEY

family Mr McCrory

THERE were emotional scenes in Derry’s Guildhall Square this morning when the family of Derry murder victim, Barry McCrory, attended a peace rally during which … more

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L-R) Ria Higgins from The Sunday Times magazine joins Claire Keenan from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB), Christopher Sommerville from The Times newspaper and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, at the On Home Ground Poetry Festival in Magherafelt. NITB hosted the journalists during the festival which was a celebration of poets and poetry and paid tribute to the life and works of one of Ireland’s greatest poets Seamus Heaney.

THE Northern Ireland Tourist Board has hosted a range of journalists during the On Home Ground poetry festival in Magherafelt. The festival was a celebration … more

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Seamus Heaney says loyalists should be allowed to fly the Union flag

POET Seamus Heaney said loyalists should be allowed to fly the Union flag when they wanted. And the 73-year-old said Sinn Fein was wrong to rush … more

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