Seamus Heaney
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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SEAMUS HEANEY
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Heaney has won many awards throughout his career including the Nobel prize for literature
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Seamus married Marie Devlin and they had three children together. Michael, Christopher and Catherine Ann.
Heaney was born on 13 April 1939, at the family farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland he was the first of nine children.
He won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Roman Catholic boarding school situated in Derry.
While attending this school his four year old brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident. The poem Mid-term Break focuses on his experience.
He also wrote poems about his father such as Digging which also mentions his grandfather and the skills they have.
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In his poetry Heaney used lots of descriptive language to give the reader an image of what is going on in his poem
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