Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet(1939-2013)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Seamus Heaney
• Birth: April 13, 1939, Castledawson, UK
• Death: August 30, 2013, Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
• Language: English
• Who he was: Irish poet; playwright; and translator of Beowulf; poetry includes Opened Ground: Selected Poems: 1966-1996; Nobel Prize in Literature (1995)
• Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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