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In Summer 1969, a poem from his acclaimed 1975 collection North, Seamus Heaneyrecalls how he was in Spain when the Troubles broke out in Northern Ireland. Caught under the “bullying sun of Madrid”, the young poet “retreated to the cool of the Prado” museum, where he was drawn to two paintings by Goya, including a dark, nightmarish depiction of Saturn devouring his son. 
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Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town
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Emotion and love for an artist and ordinary man were at the heart of Heaney’s funeral
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Mark Lawson and guests reflect on the life and work of poet Seamus Heaney.
Writers including Edna O'Brien, Colm Toibin, Michael Longley and Hermione Lee consider Seamus Heaney's long writing career,
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature with longtime ties to Harvard, died Aug. 30 in Ireland at age 74.
When a famed poet dies, words come tumbling to mind. For the many members of the Harvard community who knew Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature who died Friday, the news of his death mirrored his description of a fine poem: “It catches the heart off guard.” Critics often called Heaney, who died in Ireland at 74, the finest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. He began teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor in 1979, was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (1984-95), and then eased into a final Harvard rhythm as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence, a post he held until 2006.
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The death of the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney at the age of 74 marks the end of a career which began with his collection Death of a Naturalist in 1966.
Ursula O'Reilly Traynor 's curator insight,
September 1, 2013 11:40 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/19/david-cohen-seamus-heaney?CMP=twt_gu
Seamus Heaney. The voice is dead. Long live the voice . http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=s7sskc1pi_k
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCBq2ULmsw&feature=related
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Countless hearts are blown open as local farmer’s son is laid to rest
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Loss of this poet will be felt throughout Ireland and far beyond
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Mr. Heaney, who is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.
Seamus Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, died at a hospital in Dublin on Friday after a short illness, according to a statement issued on behalf of his family. He was 74.
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Seamus Heaney’s death at the early age of 74 has taken away one of our most remarkable citizens.
t is fair to say that Heaney, who came from humble origins in Co Derry and went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1995, was a giant among the world’s greatest contemporary writers. He was a founder member of Aosdána and was elected a Saoi in 1997, the highest honour that can be bestowed by Irish artists. As a man he was greatly valued by his colleagues for his intelligence, patience, kindliness, tolerance and good judgement.
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We cannot adequately express our profound sorrow at the loss of one of the world's greatest writers. His impact on literary culture is immeasurable. As his publisher we could not have been prouder to publish his work over nearly 50 years. He was nothing short of an inspiration to the company, and his friendship over many years is a great loss.
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He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
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We invited a number of Boston Review contributors to send in their reminiscences. Seamus Heaney, as I’ve often said, was a mensch as well as a great poet. When he sent me a poem for the first issue of Slate (his wonderful “Little Canticles of Asturias”), I don't think he had any notion what an “internet magazine” might be. He gave me the poem because I asked him for one, and we were friends. Readers of Boston Review should know that his attachment to this place was deep. I think Boston and Cambridge supplied, a little, some haven from the central, sometimes fierce spotlight, for him, of being in Dublin or London. Here, there was a little refuge in being an outsider, as well as in the glare. He handled it all with class and generosity. When reading lives of writers, many great writers often behaving in ways that were petty or worse, I've thought to myself, “Thank god for Chekhov—a great writer who was also a decent, generous, good person.” Well, thank god for Seamus.
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Seamus Heaney used to say that the poetry-writing hours of a poet’s day were the easy part; it was what to do with the rest of the day that was a challenge. He decided early on that teaching was something honorable to do with the rest of the day. He took his teaching very seriously, regarding it as a craft, something to be worked at, much like writing. I took two courses with Seamus early on in his stint at Harvard, long before he received the Nobel Prize, and before he took over from Robert Fitzgerald as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. I remember his fortieth birthday, so the first class must have been during the spring of 1979. He arrived that day with a bulging briefcase, of empty bottles of Guinness, as he showed me later that afternoon.
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Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney died this morning in Dublin. A poem from the New Republic archives.
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Paraic Breathnach, Ailbhe mcMahon and James Harold joined others in Charlie Byrne's bookshop in Galway to reflect on the passing of Seamus Heaney.
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Sense of ‘collective shock’ among followers of Nobel Prize winner’s poetry
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Fellow poet Robert Lowell described Heaney as the ‘most important Irish poet since Yeats’
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ACCLAIMED poet Seamus Heaney has died aged 74.
A statement issued by his family this morning confirmed his passing. “The death has taken place of Seamus Heaney. The poet and Nobel Laureate died in hospital in Dublin this morning after a short illness,” the statement read. Recognised by many as the best Irish poet since WB Yeats, he was a teacher before embarking on a career in poetry which led to him winning the Nobel prize for literature in 1995.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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