It was also the birthday of William Butler Yeats. Thirteen is a lucky number for Irish Nobel laureates: Heaney and Samuel Beckett share April 13th as their birth date. Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, compared Heaney to the earlier Nobel winners. Heaney smile...
He is a prolific translator into Irish of international poetry (among others Ko Un, Seamus Heaney, K. Satchidanandan, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Iqbal, Hilde Domin, Peter Huchel), plays (Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch, W. B. Yeats) and songs (Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, The Pogues, Leonard ...
V. Glob, The Bog People (1969), was decisive in Heaney's early mythology of anthropophagy and sacrife: in that book Glob writes about the unearthed bodies of men and women who were preserved in the bogs of Jutland and who date back to the Iron Age. According to this author, some ...
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OUR POET LAUREATE; an Extraordinary Life, a Nobel Prize Winner, a Persistent Voice for Peace, Seamus Heaney Was, above All, a File. Here, Fellow Writer Dermot Bolger Remembers a Countryman Who Stepped Back from the Limelight, but Became Part of Our Collective Consciousness; SATURDAY ESSAY ...