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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator, born on a farm in rural County Derry, Northern Ireland, as the eldest of nine children. His debut collection *Death of a Naturalist* (1966) brought early acclaim, and he became one of the 20th century's major poets, evoking Irish rural life, history, and myth. Heaney won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and taught at institutions like Harvard and Oxford.

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