Mourners included Irish President Michael D Higgins, South Belfast MP Clare Hanna, former North Down MP Lady Sylvia Hermon and Seamus Heaney's widow Marie Devlin. A private committal followed at ...

Hundreds attended his funeral service at All Souls Church in Belfast on Saturday. Mourners included Irish President Michael ... that Longley's memory and poetry will forever remain a blessing.

Irish President Michael ... of Taoiseach Micheal Martin attended the funeral Addressing mourners, Rev Chris Hudson said that Mr Longley's memory and poetry will forever remain a blessing.

Perhaps most striking about this work is a kind of Dadaist playfulness rarely found in Irish poetry – perhaps closest would be the poems of Paul Durcan, with their absurdist propositions often ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ... An anonymous 9th-century scholarly Irish monk, exiled by the Vikings to a German abbey, writes of a parallel struggle: his own to capture ...

A representative of Taoiseach Micheal Martin also attended the funeral, as did SDLP leader and family friend Claire Hanna. Longley won a number of awards, including the TS Eliot Prize, the Feltrinelli ...

More info Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard ... Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. He was made a CBE ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley will take place later. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on January 22. His funeral is to take place in All Souls Church in Belfast ...

Representatives of police forces across the UK are gathering in York for the funeral of Pc Rosie Prior, who died as she helped at the scene of a road crash. A full ceremonial police funeral for ...

A 12-year-old Co Donegal lad had a poem about peace between Orange and Green read by the Irish President only months before he was killed in the Omagh Bomb, an inquiry into the atrocity heard today.

Addressing the congregation, including Commandant Claire Mortimer, Aide De Camp representing Taoiseach Simon Harris, they began by reading a beautiful poem penned ... French or Irish, or in ...