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.

" 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.

Eagleton suggests: " When the political is introduced ... it is only in the context of what Heaney will or will not say.

" 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.

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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.

Carleton is featured in the long poem Station Island by Séamus Heaney.

Muldoon's work is often compared with Heaney, a fellow Northern Irish poet, friend and mentor to Muldoon.

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

Heaney is probably the best-known of these poets.

Jake's love interest / U. S. Government spy contact is Sarah Stickney White ( Caitlin O ' Heaney ).

He is also editor of 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney ( 1999 ) and of Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century ( 1999 ) with Jo Shapcott.

A poem by Seamus Heaney entitled " Nonce Words " is included in his collection " District and Circle ".

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

The main event of the cultural life in Struga is the world's largest poetry gathering, Struga Poetry Evenings, whose laureates have included several Nobel Prize for Literature winners such as Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca and many others since 1966.

He is mentioned in Widsith and in Beowulf ; a passage from Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney ( lines 1089 — 1090 ) reads:

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.

* October 5-Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Harry Heaney is an Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at Loughborough University.

Heaney is a surname of Irish origin.

ITV commissioned a new version of the show for 2008, giving Judith Chalmers ' son Mark Durden-Smith the role of main host, along with Sarah Heaney, which sees them visit some of Britain's best loved holiday destinations, this is filmed within production studios and not directly on location.

Now & Then is a 25-part series where Durden-Smith and Heaney revisits destinations, originally visited by Judith and other WYWH?

The story has captured the imaginations of contemporary Irish poets and has been translated by Trevor Joyce and Seamus Heaney.

* The Tollund Man and The Tollund Man in Springtime by Seamus Heaney

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.

* 1993: Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet by Michael Parker, ISBN 0-333-47181-4

* 1998: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran, ISBN 0-571-17747-6

* 2000: Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler, ISBN 0-674-00205-9, Harvard University Press

* 2003: Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing by Eugene O ' Brien, University Press of Florida, ISBN 0-8130-2582-6

* 2004: Seamus Heaney Searches for Answers by Eugene O ' Brien, Pluto Press: London, ISBN 0-7453-1734-0

* 2007: Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope by Karen Marguerite Moloney, ISBN 978-0-8262-1744-8

* 2007: Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind by Eugene O ' Brien, Liffey Press, Dublin, ISBN 1-904148-02-6

* 2009: The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney edited by Bernard O ' Donoghue

* 2010: Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell ISBN 978-0-268-04031-4

* 2010: Defending Poetry: Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill by David-Antoine Williams

* 2010: “ Working Nation ( s ): Seamus Heaney ’ s ‘ Digging ’ and the Work Ethic in Post-Colonial and Minority Writing ”, by Ivan Cañadas

* 2011: " Seamus Heaney and Beowulf ," by M. J. Toswell, in: Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages.

Category: Poetry by Seamus Heaney

* The Burial at Thebes ( 2004 ) by Seamus Heaney, adapted into a 2008 opera with music by Dominique Le Gendre.

* " Petruchio's Horse: Equine and Household Mismanagement in The Taming of the Shrew ", by Peter F. Heaney ; Early Modern Literary Studies 4: 1 ( May, 1998 ), 1 – 12.

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.

* Act of Union, a poem by Seamus Heaney, written in 1975