Seamus Heaney - In Memoriam

BBC News
Seamus Heaney is buried in Bellaghy, County Londonderry
BBC News
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been laid to rest in his native Bellaghy in County Londonderry.

Irish Independent
Seamus Heaney's last words to wife: 'Don't be afraid'
Irish Independent
Paul Muldoon, a teacher, poet and friend of Heaney, gave the eulogy following the service.

The Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who died Friday at the age of 74, was often called accessible. That is not a handicap.

The Irish writer Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995, was perhaps the most celebrated poet of his generation, in an era when a general reader might have a hard time naming a living poet at all. So well known was he that he was nicknamed Famous Seamus, with his easily recognizable mane of unruly white hair and jolly cheeks that seem to overwhelm his pencil-thin eyes and lips.

The last words of Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate and poet, to his wife were 'don't be afraid', which he wrote in Latin minutes before he died, one of his sons has revealed at his funeral.

An Appreciation: Seamus Heaney, animator of words
Los Angeles Times
Thirty years ago, I became a graduate teaching fellow in a popular undergraduate course at Harvard University called Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry.

Archbishop pays tribute to a special life built on words
Irish Independent
Last night, the coffin carrying the nation's most beloved poet was carried aloft by his two sons as hundreds of mourners gathered for his removal.

WHEN Seamus Heaney began writing poetry, during his years studying to be a schoolteacher in the 1960s, he used the pen-name “Incertus”, meaning “uncertain”....