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    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...
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    The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature...
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    The Seamus Heaney HomePlace is an arts and literary centre in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It displays the life and work of Seamus Heaney...
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  • Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading, which she described as "reading from...
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  • Death of a Naturalist (category Poetry by Seamus Heaney)
    collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume...
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    text and a translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The poem was read, first in Irish then in Heaney's translation into English, by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh...
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  • North (1975) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was the first of his works that directly...
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  • several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914...
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    The 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt...
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    It is the final resting place of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Seamus Heaney. It is also the place where IRA hunger-strikers Francis Hughes and Thomas...
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  • Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday...
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  • politician Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet, writer and lecturer Séamus Hearne (1932–2008), Irish hurler Seamus Heath (born 1961)...
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    Danish museums for continued research. Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote a series of poems inspired by P. V. Glob's study of the mummified...
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    place of poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. There is an arts centre in the village dedicated to Heaney. There had long...
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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...
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    Airship of Clonmacnoise (category Poetry by Seamus Heaney)
    drowning in the thicker air of this lower world. The story was retold by Seamus Heaney in a well-known poem collected in his 1991 volume, Seeing Things. Several...
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    The Cure at Troy (category Plays by Seamus Heaney)
    Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' play Philoctetes. It was first published in 1991. The...
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  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (category Works by Seamus Heaney)
    epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and...
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    songwriting has been influenced by Irish music and folklore, as well as poets Seamus Heaney and W. B. Yeats. He has said that his first record contained a "fairytale...
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    Edwin Morgan, Burton Raffel, Michael J. Alexander, Roy Liuzza, and Seamus Heaney. The difficulty of translating Beowulf has been explored by scholars...
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  • Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated...
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    Folksong Poem - Requiem for the Croppies - Seamus Heaney "Requiem for the Croppies - Poem by Seamus Heaney". Famouspoetsandpoems.com. Retrieved 17 December...
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    Retrieved 18 June 2013. Heaney, Seamus (2000). Beowulf. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393320979. Sameer Rahim, "Interview with Seamus Heaney". The Telegraph,...
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  • Sweeney Astray (category Works by Seamus Heaney)
    the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe. The work was first...
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  • the Queen's favourite authors. The inclusion of Northern Irish writer Seamus Heaney was explained by the fact that when he wrote Death of a Naturalist he...
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  • Beacons at Bealtaine (category Poetry by Seamus Heaney)
    "Beacons at Bealtaine" is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney which was composed for the EU Enlargement on May 1, 2004. "Bealtaine" is a Gaelic holiday...
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  • Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (category Poetry by Seamus Heaney)
    Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 is a 1998 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber and Faber. It was published to replace his earlier 1990...
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  • it". Helen Vendler considered that something of the kind happened to Seamus Heaney when, after a venture in abstraction, he recoiled to ground himself...
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    Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in...
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    "Punishment" is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney first published in his 1975 collection North. It, along with "Bog Queen", "The Grauballe Man", "Strange...
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