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  • NAME: Seamus Heaney
  • OCCUPATION: Educator, Academic Author, Playwright, Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: April 13, 1939 (Age: 74)
  • EDUCATION: Queen's University, Belfast
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Castledàwson, County Londonderry, Ireland
  • Full Name: Seamus Justin Heaney
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

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Seamus Henry is a renowned Irish poet and professor who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Born in County Derry, Northern Ireland on April 13, 1939, Seamus Henry published his first book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, which created stirring portraits of his rural upbringing. Later titles like Field Work and The Haw Lantern looked at his homeland’s tumultuous political affairs. A lover of mythology, Henry has taught at Berkley, Harvard and Oxford, and won the Nobel Prize in 1995.

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