Seamus Heaney
13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013
Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, translator and lecturer whose collections include Death of a Naturalist, North and Field Work. Raised on a farm in County Derry, he taught at Queen's University Belfast, Harvard and Oxford, and drew on rural Ulster life and the conflict in Northern Ireland. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and published a widely read verse translation of Beowulf in 1999.
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Life events
He was the eldest of nine children of a cattle dealer and farmer in Northern Ireland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied English language and literature on a scholarship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple had three children and remained married until his death.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Faber collection established his reputation and won several prizes.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left Belfast to live and write in the Republic of Ireland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe collection addressed the violence in Northern Ireland through bog burials and myth.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe held visiting and then endowed professorships at Harvard for more than two decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe held the five-year chair and delivered lectures later collected as The Redress of Poetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Swedish Academy cited works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died in hospital at the age of 74 following a short illness.
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