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Poet texted Latin phrase meaning 'don't be afraid' to wife minutes before he died, says Michael Heaney 
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Poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has been laid to rest in his native Bellaghy in Co Derry after a funeral mass in Dublin attended by hundreds of mourners.
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It was Seamus Heaney’s unparalleled capacity to sweep all of us up in his arms that we’re honoring.
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Seamus Heaney filled the world with poetry and prose, but said his goodbye with the simplest of lullabies.
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Novelist Colum McCann says Seamus Heaney was more important to the idea of Ireland than anyone else.
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Archbishop says poet was always a man of kindness and humility
There were a few minutes last night outside the Sacred Heart Church in Donnybrook when it seemed time had gone backwards, and that the location of Seamus Heaney’s removal was not in a suburb of our capital city, but in a small rural town. His wife Marie, daughter Catherine Ann and daughters-in-law Emer and Jenny stood at one side of the church door; a tight quartet of dignified grief. Heaney’s sons, Michael and Christopher, his brothers and brothers-in-law, stood shoulder to braced shoulder at the other side of the door, waiting for the coffin to be removed from the hearse.
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Sadness and sense of loss at Seamus Heaney’s death truly crossed the globe but it was deep too in Bellaghy
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Prof. Anthony Roche from UCD assesses Seamus Heaney's influence on Ireland and Irish literature:
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Seamus Heaney laid to rest in Bellaghy
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Following the death of Seamus Heaney, his friend and fellow poet Lachlan Mackinnon pays tribute to his dignity and dedication
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died in Dublin at the age of 74. He was one of the world's best-known poets. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Seamus Heaney was a great poet and friend, says Andrew O'Hagan, as he relives their travels in Scotland, Ireland and Wales – tucking into chowder and contemplating the afterlife
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"For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark".
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The removal service for the poet Seamus Heaney has taken place at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook in Dublin.
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President & Taoiseach attend Nobel poet laureate's funeral
Hundreds of mourners from the literary, entertainment and political worlds have gathered in Dublin to bid farewell to Seamus Heaney. The funeral Mass for the poet and playwright (74) is taking place at the Sacred Heart Church in Donnybrook in Dublin this lunchtime. He will be laid to rest this evening in his native Derry.
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Homily of Monsignor Brendan Devlin at funeral Mass for Seamus Heaney in Dublin
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Death of Irish poet made headlines across the world
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From the outset Heaney was a poet of extraordinary materiality
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In the same peaty soil into which his father drove a spade, Seamus Heaney was laid to rest this evening in the quiet Co Derry village that inspired so much of his work.
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Poet and friend Paul Muldoon pays tribute to Seamus Heaney
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Originally published by The Irish Post, Friday 30th August, 2013. To read the original, please click here. FAMOUSLY described by American poet Robert Lowell as “the most important Irish poet since ...
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Today, at 11.30 a.m., in a beautiful church in a suburb of Dublin, the funeral Mass of one of our most dearly beloved citizens will take place.
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That sardonic guy on my family's sofa became a Nobel laureate, and the English-speaking world's most beloved poet
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Also: The Hugo Awards; a push to ban a Toni Morrison book from Alabama school reading lists, the best book coming out this week.
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