Life of Seamus Heaney an Irish poet

By walsh98

  • The birth of Seamus Heaney

    Heaney was born in Derry in Northern Ireland

  • Professions

    Heaney became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University and began to publish poetry.

  • Heaney became a lecturer

    Heaney became a lecturer at St Joseph's, and in the spring of 1963, after contributing various articles to local magazines, he came to the attention of Philip Hobsbaum, then an English lecturer at Queen's University. Hobsbaum set up a Belfast Group of local young poets

  • Nobel Prize

    Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in for what the Nobel committee described as "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.

  • The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

    The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was opened at Queen's University Belfast. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, along with a full catalogue of his radio and television presentations.

  • Death of Heaney

    Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin aged 74, following a short illness.