Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a …

Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the …

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. …

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"

Jun 16, 2025 · Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism …

Heaney’s 1990 Selected Poems was the only book by a living poet that gave me the same on-rushing compulsion to read, from beginning to end, the growth of the poet’s mind, with the same excitement …

More recently, his words have been quoted by President Joe Biden, who counts Heaney among his favourite poets. Today, Heaney’s legacy continues through his poetry, which is taught in classrooms …