Byline: by Dermot BolgerTHE last time I met Seamus Heaney, I saw - although I could say this about every occasion we met - an example of his grace, generosity of spirit and human tact. Two years ago at the Irish Book Awards, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by our...
OUR POET LAUREATE; an Extraordinary Life, a Nobel Prize Winner, a Persistent Voice for Peace, Seamus Heaney Was, above All, a File. Here, Fellow Writer Dermot Bolger Remembers a Countryman Who Stepped Back from the Limelight, but Became Part of Our Collective Consciousness; SATURDAY ESSAY ...