The Irish Review is a refereed journal. Since it first appeared in 1986 it has provided a forum critical and creative writing in English and Irish and a space in which new debates, ideas and voices are heard across Ireland and beyond. Its editorial policy is pluralist and interdisciplinary – pluralist in its commitment to involving writers from all parts of the island and from other countries, interdisciplinary in its desire to publish articles, poetry and writing on the arts, society, philosophy, history, politics, the environment and science. The aim is to serve a general rather than a specialist readership. The Irish Review aims to promote new ways of thinking about Irish arts and culture and new ways of understanding Ireland's history and future.

A celebration of the life, work and legacy of Seamus Heaney. This special issue includes criticism and reflections on the poetic and intellectual legacy of Ireland's greatest poet since Yeats.

The Music of What Happens CIARAN CARSON

Breaking News PAUL DURCAN

The Melt of the Real Thing NEIL CORCORAN

Heaney and the Music ANGELA LEIGHTON

Room to Rhyme: Some Memories of Seamus Heaney MICHAEL LONGLEY

Seamus Heaney's Globe JAHAN RAMAZANI

Explorations: Seamus Heaney and Education ROSIE LAVAN

Heaney's Implications PETER MCDONALD

Definitively Other: Seamus Heaney and Ulster Protestantism CONNAL PARR

Making Strange NICK LAIRD

'Pilot and Stray in One': Sustaining Nothingness in the Travel Poems of Early Heaney CATRIONA CLUTTERBUCK

Fraught Pleasures: Engaging Seamus Heaney JOHN WILSON FOSTER

'And Fostered Me and Sent Me Out': Muldoon Reading Heaney SINÉAD MORRISSEY

Heaney's Legacy ALAN GILLIS

Three Poems MEDBH MCGUCKIAN

On Authorship and Intermediality in Seamus Heaney: 'I can connect / Some bits and pieces' RUI CARVALHO HOMEM

'Station Island':A Kind of Valediction PATRICIA CRAIG

Seamus Heaney and Water NICHOLAS ALLEN

Seamus Heaney and the Mantle of Aeschylus: The Aftermath of the War ANNE DEVLIN

Seamus Heaney: First and Last Things HUGH HAUGHTON

Radically Necessary: Heaney's Defence of Poetry LEONTIA FLYNN