Watercress: It may take the goodness out of milk but it makes an excellent purée

In season now, watercress is great eaten raw in a salad or blanched briefly and blended in to a soup

The Sweeney – An Irishman’s Diary about a new version of an ancient epic

Seamus Heaney loved dirty jokes? Tell us another one

Actor Stephen Rea on the late Nobel laureate’s warmth, wisdom and influence on his career

Digging deep into the regions of Seamus Heaney’s poetry

Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry

Obituary: Heaney ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’

His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings