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John M. Kelly Library Research Guides

Irish Literature & Cinema

Seamus Heaney

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.
By Dennis O’Driscoll.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008.

In His Own Words: Heaney Essays and Interviews

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001.
By Seamus Heaney.
London: Faber and Faber, 2002.
The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose.
By Seamus Heaney.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Seamus Heaney: An Interview and Essay on the Poetry.
By Helen Vendler, et al.
From Salmagundi, no. 80 (Fall 1988): 4-101.
Criticism on Heaney’s Work These books analyze Heaney’s work. They all contain bibliographies and indexes.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney.
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Edited by Bernard O’Donoghue.
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry.
By Conor McCarthy.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2008.
Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind.
By Eugene O’Brien.
Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002.
Seamus Heaney.
By Helen Vendler.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Seamus Heaney.
Edited by Michael Allen.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney.
Edited by Robert F. Garratt.
New York: G.K. Hall, 1995.
The Art of Seamus Heaney.
Edited by Tony Curtis.
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan: Poetry Wales Press, 1994.
Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions.
By Henry Hart.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992.
Seamus Heaney.
Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Seamus Heaney.
By Blake Morrison.
London: Methuen, 1982.
Bibliography
Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography 1959-2003.
By Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008.