Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

{{Short description|2008 book about Seamus Heaney}}

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|image=File:Stepping_Stones,_Interviews_with_Seamus_Heaney_-_cover.jpeg

|caption=2009 paperback ed

| author = Dennis O'Driscoll

| isbn = 9780374269838

| pub_date = 2008

| publisher = Faber and Faber

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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney is Dennis O'Driscoll's book-length portrait of Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It has been described as the nearest thing in existence to an autobiography of Heaney.{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article5153729.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616075455/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article5153729.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 June 2011|title=Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney|newspaper=The Times|publisher=News Corporation|date=14 November 2008|accessdate=23 May 2010}}

O'Driscoll, who died on Christmas Eve 2012, was a poet, a friend of Heaney's and a student of his poetry.{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Eder|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1619936111.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+28%2C+2008&author=Richard+Eder&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=Interviews+with+Seamus+Heaney+offer+a+new+vision+of+his+life%2C+work%2C+beliefs%2C+and+doubts&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630043127/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1619936111.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+28,+2008&author=Richard+Eder&pub=Boston+Globe&desc=Interviews+with+Seamus+Heaney+offer+a+new+vision+of+his+life,+work,+beliefs,+and+doubts&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2013|title=Interviews with Seamus Heaney offer a new vision of his life, work, beliefs, and doubts|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=28 December 2008|accessdate=28 December 2008}} The book is full of their conversations on poetry, life and so on.{{cite news|first=Allan|last=Massie|authorlink=Allan Massie|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4029672/Stepping-Stones-Interviews-with-Seamus-Heaney-by-Dennis-ODriscoll-review.html|title=Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll – review|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 January 2009|accessdate=2 January 2009}} It was first published in 2008 by Faber and Faber ({{ISBN|9780374269838}}).

The book also features a number of photographs published for the first time.{{cite web|first=Dennis|last=O'Driscoll|authorlink=Dennis O'Driscoll|url=http://www.charliebyrne.com/details.php?ID=605|title=Stepping Stones; Interviews with Seamus Heaney |work=Charlie Byrne's}} Extracts have been used during school examinations.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/secondary/relief-main-reaction-as-paper-offers-something-to-everyone-1.676105|title=Relief main reaction as paper offers something to everyone|newspaper=The Irish Times|publisher=Irish Times Trust|date=10 June 2010|accessdate=10 June 2010}}