Seamus Heaney strode the world of Irish poetry like a Colossus. When he died on 30th August 2013, his friends and family felt a personal loss and it was a tremendous loss, too, to fans of his poetry ...

Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and translator Seamus Heaney, who was awarded literature’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize, in 1995, and who taught at Harvard University for more than two decades, ...