Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for poetry. He lived in Dublin for much of his life.

 Early life 
Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, in Northern Ireland. His parents were Patrick and Sarah Heaney, and Seamus was the first of nine children. 
Patrick was a farmer, but his main business was selling cattle.Nobel Prize Heaney Biography. Retrieved 2010-05-23. 

Sarah Heaney was called Sarah McCann before she married Patrick Heaney, and her relations worked to make cloth in the linen industry. 
Heaney said it was important part of his background that his parents came from different parts of Irish life: the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution.

He was elected a honorary member of the Academia Europaea in 2008.

Death
Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, aged 74, following a stroke.HEANEY, Seamus : Death notice Irish Times, 2013-09-30.Higgins to lead mourners at funeral Mass for poet Sunday Indeppendent, 2013-09-01.

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