Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney
Heaney talks to students of
(University College Dublin), 2009
Born(1939-04-13)13 April 1939
Castledawson, Northern Ireland
Died30 August 2013 (aged 74)
Dublin, Republic of Ireland
OccupationPoet
Years active1966–2013
AwardsNobel Prize in Literature 1995
T. S. Eliot Prize 2006

Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for poetry.[1] He lived in Dublin for much of his life.

Early life

Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, in Northern Ireland. His parents were Patrick and Sarah Heaney, and Seamus was the first of nine children.[2] Patrick was a farmer, but his main business was selling cattle.[3]

Sarah Heaney was called Sarah McCann before she married Patrick Heaney, and her relations worked to make cloth in the linen industry. Heaney said it was important part of his background that his parents came from different parts of Irish life: the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution.

He was elected a honorary member of the Academia Europaea in 2008.[4]

Death

Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, aged 74, following a stroke.[5][6][7]

References

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  1. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. ↑ "A Note on Seamus Heaney". inform.orbitaltec.ne. Retrieved 2009-04-20. Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939, the first child of Patrick and Margaret Kathleen Heaney (née McCann), who then lived on a fifty-acre farm called Mossbawn, in the townland of Tamniarn, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
  3. ↑ Nobel Prize Heaney Biography. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
  4. ↑ "Seamus Heaney". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  5. ↑ HEANEY, Seamus : Death notice Irish Times, 2013-09-30.
  6. ↑ McGreevy, Ronan (30 August 2013). "Tributes paid to 'keeper of language' Seamus Heaney". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Higgins to lead mourners at funeral Mass for poet Sunday Indeppendent, 2013-09-01.

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