Seamus Heaney
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1995for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past
- Citizenship
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Ireland - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 4/13/1939
- place of birth
- Castledawson
- date of death
- 8/30/2013
- place of death
- Dublin
- Lived
- 74 years
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- member of
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- Royal Irish Academy
- start time: 1996
- Aosdána
- start time: 1997
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1993
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 2008
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 2000
- Royal Society of Literature
- The Belfast Group
- Royal Irish Academy
- occupation
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- linguist
- actor
- poet
- writer
- author
- translator
- playwright
- university teacher
- employer
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Harvard University
- educated at
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- St Columb's College
- Bates College
- Queen's University Belfast
- notable work
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- Human Chain
- Death of a Naturalist
- District and Circle
- field of work
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- poetry