Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
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Surname :
Heaney
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Seamus
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1939-2013
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Heaney, Seamus (Seamus Justin), 1939-2013
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Heaney
Forename :
Seamus
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Seamus Justin
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1939-2013
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Khini, Sheĭmas, 1939-2013
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Khini
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Sheĭmas
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1939-2013
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Hini, S̆ejmas, 1939-2013
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Hini
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S̆ejmas
Date :
1939-2013
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Chēny, Seimous, 1939-2013
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Chēny
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Seimous
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1939-2013
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Chini, Šejmas, 1939-2013
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Chini
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Šejmas
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1939-2013
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Хини, Шеймас, 1939-2013
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Хини
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Шеймас
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1939-2013
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Cyrl
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ヒーニー, シェーマス, 1939-2013
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ヒーニー
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シェーマス
Date :
1939-2013
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Biographical History
Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a group of poets who were subsequently recognized as constituting something of a 'Northern School' within Irish writing. His first book, Death of a Naturalist, was published in 1966. He and his wife, Marie Devlin, have three children.In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 'for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past'.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/109557338
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79099140
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n79099140
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93356
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116281839
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Baccalaureate addresses
English poetry
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