Following the demise of The Seahorses, Squire continued work with drummer Mark Heaney and ex-Verve bassist Simon Jones along with new vocalist Duncan Baxter as John Squire's Skunkworks, but left prior to the band releasing material as The Shining.

Whilst some critics have accused Heaney of being " an apologist and a mythologizer " of the violence, Blake Morrison suggests the poet " has written poems directly about the Troubles as well as elegies for friends and acquaintances who have died in them ; he has tried to discover a historical framework in which to interpret the current unrest ; and he has taken on the mantle of public spokesman, someone looked to for comment and guidance ...

" Shaun O ' Connell in the New Boston Review notes that " those who see Seamus Heaney as a symbol of hope in a troubled land are not, of course, wrong to do so, though they may be missing much of the undercutting complexities of his poetry, the backwash of ironies which make him as bleak as he is bright.

Heaney, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, is better known, sells widely and has enjoyed more popular success.

In this journal, he introduced a number of poets who were to become quite famous later, including Paul Durcan, Michael Hartnett and Seamus Heaney.

His admirers included T. S. Eliot and Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney, who wrote in a poem of tribute:

While the first section, " Sources ," includes older poets such as Robert Graves, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas, the second section " New Voices " not only includes Seamus Heaney but also Liverpool poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten who at the time were not accepted by mainstream critics ( although they were featured in the best-selling The Mersey Sound anthology from 1967 ).

* Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize

* The poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born at a farm near Castledawson in 1939, although was brought up in the nearby village of Bellaghy.

In a recent expedition in the Philippines, 7 more Apomys mice were added and the genus was proposed to split into two subgenera-Apomys and Megapomys, based on morphological and cytochrome b DNA sequence ( Heaney et al., 2011 ).

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

There are two operas, one composed in 1986 by Marjorie S. Merryman and the other " The Burial at Thebes " in 2007 / 2008 with music by Dominique Le Gendre and libretto by Seamus Heaney, based on his translation for the normal spoken theatre.

More specifically, in his essay Frontiers of Writing, Heaney creates an image of five towers forming a quincunx pattern within Ireland, one tower for each of the five provinces, each having literary significance.

Naish was married ( from 1929 until his death ) to actress Gladys Heaney ( 1907 – 1987 ); they had one daughter, Elaine.

he contributed translations of Old Irish marginalia for Songs of the Scribe, an album by Traditional Singer in Residence of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin.

The album opened to generally positive reviews, with George Heaney of AllMusic calling the record " another fine outing from the Rocket Summer.

In 1998, the band began work on a follow up album with another new drummer, Mark Heaney.

Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney and piper Liam O ' Flynn perform Gile na Gile on the album " The Poet and the Piper ".

" Reflections on what Heaney identifies as " tribal conflict ", favour the description of people's lives and their voices, drawing out the ' psychic landscape '.

Heaney published “ Requiem for the Croppies ” on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798.

" When a poem rhymes ," Heaney wrote, " when a form generates itself, when a metre provokes consciousness into new postures, it is already on the side of life.

Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the Faber contract, Hughes and Heaney decided the The Rattle Bags main purpose was to offer enjoyment to the reader: " Arbitrary riches ".

* 1995: Critical essays on Seamus Heaney ed.

Hobsbaum spent some time teaching in Belfast, where he was a formative influence on the emerging Northern Ireland poets including Seamus Heaney.

Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative " Portrait Heads " of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early " Tinker " subjects and Grey period " Family " paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £ 1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.

* Walker, Dorothy, Louis le Brocquy ( Dublin: Ward River Press, 1981 ; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 ), with contributions by John Russell ; Dorothy Walker ; Earnán O ’ Malley ; le Brocquy ‘ A Painter ’ s Notes on his Irishness ’, ‘ Notes on Painting and Awareness ’; Jacques Dupin ‘ The Paintings of 1964-1966 ’; Claude Esteban ‘ Archaeology of the Face: Images of Lorca ’; Seamus Heaney ‘ Louis le Brocquy ’ s heads ’.

* Heaney, Lawrence R. & Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. ( 2006 ): Mammal and Land Bird Studies on Camiguin Island, Philippines: Background and Conservation Priorities.

In a recent review in the Folk Music Journal, Mike Heaney has criticised Georgina Boyes for a recent work ( Step Change: New Views on Traditional Dance, 2001 ), where he says that " Factual errors and misrepresentations abound " ( Folk Music Journal 2003 page 369 ). C.

The band supported Ugly Kid Joe on a European tour in 1993, when Heaney was fired mid-tour.

" Beacons of Bealtaine " is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney which was composed for the EU Enlargement on May 1, 2004.

In 1982, on his 65th birthday, a book of poems was published in his honour that included contributions from Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin and twenty-three other poets, testifying to the respect and indeed love that the British poetry community had for him.

In a 1993 lecture on Merriman's life and work, Seamus Heaney declared, " Perhaps I can convey the ongoing reality of the poem's life more simply by recollecting a Saturday evening last August when I had the privilege of unveiling a memorial to Brian Merriman on the shore of Lough Graney in Co. Clare, where the opening scene of ' The Midnight Court ' is set.

Brad Heaney ( ex-The Screaming Jets ) replaced Tebbutt on drums and Steve Williams ( Wa Wa Nee ) replaced Brett Williams on guitar by 1993.

Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem " Personal Helicon " from his first collection " Death of a Naturalist ":" To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring

they include the poet Seamus Heaney and dramatist Brian Friel as well as the former SDLP MP and deputy first minister Seamus Mallon.

* In May 2008, Granato was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of fame with two other women's hockey players ( Geraldine Heaney, Angela James )-the first women to be given such an honor.

When Harper's Magazine excerpted Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend, Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first three sentences:

Written as a " boys ' novel " and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney.

The work won in the poetry category, and overall Best Book of the Year, becoming the first poet to take the overall prize since Seamus Heaney in 1999.

She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position.

The first set of three pamphlets were written by directors of the Field Day Company — Tom Paulin, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane.