Seamus Heaney

Novelist

Seamus Heaney was born in Castledawson, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom on April 13th, 1939 and is the Novelist. At the age of 74, Seamus Heaney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
April 13, 1939
Nationality
Ireland
Place of Birth
Castledawson, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Death Date
Aug 30, 2013 (age 74)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Actor, Author, Linguist, Playwright, Poet, Translator, University Teacher, Writer
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Education
Queen's University Belfast
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Marie Devlin ​(m. 1965)​
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3
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Seamus Heaney Career

Career

Heaney began teaching English Language and Literature at Queen's University Belfast in 1957. He discovered a copy of Ted Hughes' Lupercal, which prompted him to write poetry while he was there. "Suddenly, the subject of contemporary poetry was the stuff of my own life," he said. He earned his First Class Honours degree in 1961.

Heaney completed a teacher certificate at St Joseph's Teacher Training College in Belfast (now merged with St Mary's University College) and began teaching at St Thomas' Secondary Intermediate School in Ballymurphy, Belfast. Michael McLaverty, a writer from County Monaghan, introduced Heaney to Patrick Kavanagh's poetry, was the headmaster of the school. Heaney began to publish poetry in 1962 as a result of McLaverty's mentorship. Sophia Hillan explains how McLaverty was like a foster father to the younger Belfast poet. Heaney wrote a brief introduction to McLaverty's Collected Works: "His voice was modestly pitched, he never sought the spotlight, but his place in our literature is secure." Fosterage, Heaney's poem from the sequence Singing School from North (1975), is dedicated to him.

Heaney began lecturing at St Joseph's University in 1963 and joined the Belfast Group, a poet's workshop organized by Philip Hobsbaum, and later became an English lecturer at Queen's University. Heaney met other Belfast poets, including Derek Mahon and Michael Longley, through this series.

While at St Joseph's in 1962, Heaney met Marie Devlin, a native of Ardboe, County Tyrone; they married in August 1965. Devlin, a school teacher and writer, published Over Nine Waves (1994), a collection of traditional Irish myths and legends. Eleven Poems, Heaney's first book, was released in November 1965 as part of the Queen's University Festival. Michael, their first son, was born in 1966. Christopher is the second son of a second son who was born in 1968.

Death of a Naturalist, Heaney's first major volume, was published in 1966 by Faber and Faber. This collection received acclaim for its work as well as the Gregory Award for Young Writers and the Geoffrey Faber Prize. He was named as a lecturer in Modern English Literature at Queen's University Belfast the previous year. Heaney and Michael Longley undertook a reading tour called Room to Rhyme in 1968, which raised the poet's work. Door into the Dark, his second major volume, came out the following year.

In the 1970-1971 academic year, Heaney served as a visiting professor in English at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing full-time in 1972 and left his lectureship at Belfast, moved to Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland, and began writing on a full-time basis. Helo's third collection, Wintering Out, was released in 2010. North, Heaney's next volume, was released in 1975. Stations, a pamphlet of prose poetry, was released the same year.

Heaney, the Head of English at Carysfort College in Dublin, was appointed as the Head of English and he and his family migrated to Sandymount, a suburb of Dublin. Field Work, his newest collection, was published in 1979. Prosecutors Selection Poems 1965-1975 and Preoccupations: Prosecutors 1966-1978 were published in 1980. Heaney was one of those elected to the national Irish Arts Council when it was established in 1981. In 1997, he was named a Saoi, one of the country's five elders and the highest award).

Heaney had also travelled to the United States in 1981 as a visiting professor at Harvard, where he was affiliated with Adams House. He has been given two honorary doctorates from Queen's University and Fordham University in New York City (1982). Heaney delivered his address at the Fordham Commencement ceremony on May 23, 1982, as "Verses for a Fordham Commencement."

Heaney, who was born and educated in Northern Ireland, emphasized that he was Irish not British. Following the success of Brian Friel's Translations, Brian Friel and Stephen Rea's translations, the company's founders decided to make it a permanent group. In 1981, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors. Margaret, his mother, died in autumn 1984.

Heaney spent his time at Harvard as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (1985–1999) and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard 1998–2006. Heaney was born with a Litt. D. In 1986, Heaney was granted a Litigation Certificate. From Bates College. Patrick, his father, died in October of the same year. Heaney was greatly affected by the death of both parents within two years, and he expressed his sadness in poems. The Government of the Tongue was a collection of his critical essays published in 1988.

At the request of Amnesty International Ireland, Heaney wrote the poem "From the Republic of Conscience" in 1985. He wanted to "celebrate United Nations Day and Amnesty's service." The poem was awarded the Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International's highest award.

After delivering the prestigious Ellmann Lecture in Modern Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Heaney donated his lecture notes to the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

Heaney was appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1989, a position he held for five years until 1994. The chair does not need to live in Oxford. During this time, he was splitting his time between Ireland and the United States. He also began to give public readings. These performances were so well attended and eagerly awaited that those who waited for tickets with such enthusiasm were often dubbed "Heaneyboppers," implying an almost teenybopper fan base.

The Cure at Troy, a play based on Sophocles' Philoctetes, was published in 1990. Seeing Things (1991), his next collection of poetry, will be published next year. Heaney was named an Honorary Patron of Trinity College Dublin's University Philosophical Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1991).

Heaney guest-edited The Mays Anthology, a collection of recent writing from undergraduate students at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, a 1993 edition. He was given the Dickinson College Arts Award in the same year and returned to the Pennsylvania college to address the commencement address and receive an honorary degree. At the time of his death in 2013, he was supposed to return to Dickinson to receive the Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Award—for a major literary figure. This year, Irish poet Paul Muldoon was named winner of the award, partly due to the close association between the two writers.

In 1995, Heaney was named a Nobel Prize in Literature for "works of lyrical charm and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." When the news broke, he and his wife were on holiday in Greece. Neither journalists nor his own children could reach him until he arrived at Dublin Airport two days later, but an Irish television camera followed him to Kalamata. When asked how he would like to be added to the Irish Nobel pantheon of W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett, Heaney replied, "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a mountain range." You should just live up to it, I'm sure. It's amazing." With President Mary Robinson, he and his wife Marie were escorted from the airport to ras an Uachtaráin for champagne. In personal conversations with others, he will describe the award specifically as "the N thing."

Heaney's 1996 collection The Spirit Level received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award; he repeated the success with Beowulf: A New Verse Translation in 1999.

Heaney was elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1996 and was admitted in 1997. Heaney was elected Saodána last year in the same year. Heaney was elected Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1998.

In 2000, Heaney was named an honorary doctorate and gave the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. Heaney was named an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University in 2002 and gave a public lecture on "The Guttural Muse."

The Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast was opened in 2003. The Heaney Media Archive, a record of Heaney's entire career, as well as a complete list of his radio and television performances, is included in the book. Heaney also decided to remembrance a substantial portion of his literary archive at Emory University as a tribute to William M. Chace, the university's recently deceased president. The Emory papers portrayed Heaney's work (1964-2003). Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley, and other Belfast staff donated these to help build their vast existing archive of Irish writers, including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, and other Belfast writers.

When asked if there was anyone in popular culture who piqued an interest in poetry and songs, Heaney praised American rapper Eminem from Detroit, saying, "He has developed a sense of what is possible." He has a voltage that has been around for a decade. He has achieved this not only through his subversive attitude but also his verbal zeal." To celebrate the 2004 EU Enlargement, Heaney wrote the poem "Beacons at Bealtaine." At a reception for the 25 leaders of the expanded European Union, which was arranged by the Irish EU presidency, he read the poem.

Heaney had a stroke in August 2006. Although he recovered and chuckled, "Blessed are the pacemakers" when fitted with a heart monitor, he stopped all public appearances for several months. He was in County Donegal at the 75th anniversary of Anne Friel, the wife of playwright Brian Friel. When in hospital, Henning Mankell, Donna Leon, and Robert Harris read the books. Former President Bill Clinton was one of his tourers.

The 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize was won by Heaney's District and Circle. He became an artist of honor in stermarie, Denmark, in 2008, and Seamus Heaney Strde (street) was named after him. In 2009, Heaney was given an Honorary-Life Membership award from the University College Dublin (UCD) Law Society in recognition of his outstanding work as a literary figure.

Dennis O'Driscoll's book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney in 2008 was published by Faber and Faber; this has been described as the nearest thing to an autobiography of Heaney. Heaney received the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2009. He released a spoken word album of himself reading his poetry collections in honor of his 70th birthday, which took place on April 13.

In July 2010, he spoke at the West Belfast Festival in honor of his mentor, poet and novelist Michael McLaverty, who had encouraged Heaney to first publish his poems.

Faber unveiled Human Chain, Heaney's twelfth collection, in September 2010. Despite being twice shortlisted, Human Chain was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, one of the major poetry awards Heaney had never before won. The book, which was released 44 years since the poet's debut, was inspired in large part by Heaney's death in 2006, which left him "babyish" and "on the brink." Ruth Padel, a poet and forward judge, described the work as "a series of aching, transparent, and delicately weighted poems — a marvelous and humanistic achievement." Colm Tóibn wrote Human Chain, "his best single volume for many years" and one that includes some of the best poems he has written, is a book of shades and memories, of journeys into the underworld, of elegies and translations, of echoes and silences, among other things that have been kept in shadow." The collection was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in October 2010.

Heaney was ranked one of "British Top 100 intellectuals" by The Observer in 2011, but the paper later announced a correction acknowledging that "several people who did not appear to be British" were included, of which Heaney was one. He translated Old Irish marginalization for Songs of the Scribe, an album by Traditional Singer in Residence of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Pádraign N. Uallachachacháin.

He donated his personal literary notes to the National Library of Ireland in December 2011. Despite the fact that Heaney said he would have made a fortune selling them, Heaney personally packed up the boxes of notes and drafts and delivered them to the National Library with his son Michael.

Heaney accepted the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award in June 2012 and gave a address in honor of the award.

At the time of his death, Heaney was compiling a collection of his work in anticipation of Selected Poems 1988–2013. Beowulf, Electric Light, District, and Circle are among the selections' poems and writings from Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf's translation, Beowulf, District, and Circle, as well as Human Chain (fall 2014).

Emory University opened Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens, the first major exhibition to commemorate Seamus Heaney's life and work after his death in February 2014. The exhibit includes a representation of Heaney's personal writing desk, as well as old photographs and personal correspondence with other writers. Heaney died in August 2013, during the exhibition's curatorial process. Despite the exhibit's original intention to celebrate Heaney's life and work, a small section devoted to his death and its fame remains at the forefront.

Heaney's family would posthumously publish his translation of Book VI of The Aeneid in 2016.

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