In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home.
Heaney was born on 13 April 1939, at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge he was the first of nine children. No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot. Wearing a poppy bruise on the left temple, The headstone bears the epitaph "Walk on air against your better judgement", from one of his poems, "The Gravel Walks". Heaney is buried at the Cemetery of St Mary's Church, Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. In 2011, he was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and in 2012, a Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes (19). Forster Award (1975), the PEN Translation Prize (1985), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), the T. Other awards that he received include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. In 1996 he was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of the Aosdána. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997, and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. He lived part-time in the United States from 1981 to 2006. He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1976 until his death.
Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University and began to publish poetry. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA ( / ˈ ʃ eɪ m ə s ˈ h iː n i/ 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
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