Boston College collection of Seamus Heaney

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Boston College collection of Seamus Heaney

1966 - 2006

https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/269

This collection documents the work of Irish poet Seamus Heaney a selection of his original correspondence and manuscripts. His correspondence contains both personal and professional letters, the bulk to Irish author Benedict Kiely. The manuscripts are drafts of poems, often several versions of a given work. Materials include an audio cassette, correspondence, drawings, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and sculptures.

8.5 Linear Feet (6 containers)

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7343800

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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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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 gro...

Kiely, Benedict

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Benedict Kiely (1919- ), author, born in County Tyrone, Ireland. From the description of Benedict Kiely collection, 1985-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863268 ...