News about Seamus Heaney

I am not suicidal. I really don't want to die by myself. However, oh how I wish it was over. Sometimes I long to be in a warm, snug bed, surrounded by my nearest and dearest, quietly chatting away and then drifting away into peace and eternal stillness. My husband and I have been married for more than 40 years with four children and five grandchildren near by. Both the joy and the hard work our children expect from us.

]I'm looking forward to this evening: sitting in an old Irish pub in Dublin dressed in my favorite cozy knit and sipping a glass of Guinness.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: A Windsor Castle archivist whispers that as they catalog the late Queen's letters and records, as well as Prince Philip, they create a personal history that scholars can depend on. However, she claims that the younger royals prefer emails to writing things down and that they often resort to social media to vent (which is heavily secured and encrypted). There is no such thing as a safe harbor. One of the suggestions that one be introduced has fallen on deaf ears. Historical historians of the past may have a difficult time in the future.

The University of Warwick has issued a warning far from the Madding Crowd (inset), which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life. Thomas Hardy's (19th Century work (right) explores Bathsheba Everdene's loves and marriages, as well as faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak (left), Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts appear as the characters in the book's 2015 film version). Gabriel's two hundred pregnant ewes are chased by his dog and crash to their deaths off a cliff in one scene. He kills his inexperienced sheepdog and becomes penniless after this. Four of Bathsheba's sheep died after eating a field of clover in a separate chapter. The Warwick's English Department set the alarm off the novel in the midst of scenes in which students could be 'upset by' as the story depicts the 'cruelty of nature and the rural life'.