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Bloody Sunday victims honoured through rights won at great cost – President Higgins

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to the men who were killed on Bloody Sunday. Mr Higgins said the victims continue to be honoured through commitment to the rights that “were won at such great cost”. Thirteen civil rights protesters were ...

30 Jan 2022 at 19:24

Arts & Entertainment

New Seamus Heaney Centre to open next year

Queen’s University Belfast has announced a £4.9 million new landmark venue for the Seamus Heaney Centre, which will open for staff, students and the public early next year. The reimagined space at the listed buildings in University Road and Mount ...

21 Aug 2023 at 15:39

Northern Ireland

Seamus Heaney’s widow watches on as Joe Biden cites work of late Irish poet

An emotional Marie Heaney, widow of Seamus Heaney, watched on as Joe Biden cited one of the late Nobel laureate’s best-known works in his Oireachtas address. Heaney, who died in 2013, is one of the best-known modern Irish poets and has long been ...

13 Apr 2023 at 19:47

Northern Ireland

Ancient remains discovered in Bellaghy bog ‘likely to belong to young woman’

Ancient human remains uncovered in a Co Londonderry bog are believed to belong to a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago. Further research has been carried out following the discovery of the now named Ballymacombs More Woman in bogland ...

20 Feb 2025 at 00:01

Northern Ireland

50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection on Troubles to be marked

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s collection North, which saw the poet directly address the Northern Ireland Troubles for the first time, is to be marked. A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s ...

01 Jun 2025 at 11:00

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