Irish Poets - by Patrick Groome https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i Noble Prize Winner - Seamus Heaney en-us 2018-11-19 09:47:40 UTC 2023-02-25 21:04:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/326954984/0fc2931acaa52bb39334acfbbcd45f03/P1012904.jpg Heaney the early years patrickg15551 https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305833877
Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April, 1939 in rural County Derry, in Northern Ireland. He was the eldest of nine children born to Patrick Heaney, a cattle farmer, and Margaret McCann, and grew up on the family farm of Mossbawn. Heaney’s childhood was a peaceful and simple one: in his Nobel lecture, he called it ‘an intimate, physical, creaturely existence… in suspension between the archaic and the modern’. The people, landscapes and memories of his upbringing would inform his poetry throughout his life.

In 1953, Heaney’s second youngest brother Christopher was killed in a road accident, aged four. This tragic event is commemorated in one of his most famous poems, ‘Mid-Term Break’. After Christopher’s death, the family moved to a new farm, The Wood, outside the village of Bellaghy.

]]> 2018-11-19 09:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305833877 patrickg15551 https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305835550 My favorite poem by Seamus Heaney is Digging]]> 2018-11-19 09:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305835550 patrickg15551 https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305836582 Marriage and Family

In 1965, he married Marie Devlin, who had grown up near the poet, in Ardboe, County Tyrone, on the shores of Lough Neagh. Together they had three children, Michael (born in 1966), Christopher (1968) and Catherine Ann (1973). They lived in Belfast until 1972, when they moved to County Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland. In 1975, he took up a teaching post at Carysfort College of Education in Dublin and, the following year, moved with his family to a new home in the city's neighbourhood of Sandymount, where he would live for the rest of his life.


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]]> 2018-11-19 10:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/305836582 Heaney Professional Career patrickg15551 https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/306262108 Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997, and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In 1996, was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of the Aosdána. Other awards that he received include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. M. Forster Award(1975), the PEN Translation Prize (1985), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), the T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes(1996 and 1999).[5][6] In 2011, he was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and in 2012, a Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust. His literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland.]]> 2018-11-20 10:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickg15551/67f0010b6g7i/wish/306262108