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The Seamus Heaney HomePlace, in Bellaghy, is a literary and arts centre which commemorates Heaney's legacy. [116] His literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland . Following an approach by Fintan O'Toole , the Heaney family authorised a biography of the poet, with access to family-held records (2017).
In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. [ 1 ]
He then attended Queen's University, Belfast, where he was taught by Seamus Heaney. He resides in Gweedore , County Donegal. He is a descendant of John McSorley, who opened McSorley's Old Ale House , the oldest operating pub in New York City .
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 everyday miracles and the living past." [ 1 ] He is the fourth Irish Nobel laureate after the playwright Samuel Beckett in 1969.
Seamus Heaney (recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature) and his wife were driven here after Heaney had a stroke in 2006. Bill Clinton - in Ireland at the time for 2006 Ryder Cup in County Kildare (just west of Dublin and many hours south of Letterkenny) - heard about Heaney's 'episode', as Heaney himself described it. "The next thing ...
Writing in The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan “reviews” Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s newly published letters—but it’s really a look into her family’s long friendship with the Heaneys ...
The play contains many digressions from the Greek original, Heaney adding Irish idiom and expanding the involvement of some characters such as the Guard. Relevant to the time of its writing, Heaney also adds in "Bushisms", referencing George W. Bush and his approach to leadership, drawing a parallel between him and the character of Creon.
Eavan Aisling Boland [1] (/ iː ˈ v æ n ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ ˈ b oʊ l ə n d / ee-VAN ASH-ling BOH-lənd; [2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.