Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was a Northern Irish poet, translator and essayist. He studied English at university in Belfast on a scholarship and subsequently worked for many years as a teacher and university lecturer. From 1989 to 1994, he held the chair of poetry at the University of Oxford. His first poetry collection was published in 1966, followed by further collections, essays and translations. Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His collection “District and Circle” received the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. Heaney died in Dublin in August 2013.