seamus
Title: seamus
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1611 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
seamus
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1611 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually
contain nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry
in Northern Ireland, but the father's real commitment was to cattle-dealing. There was something very congenial to Patrick Heaney about the cattle-dealer's way of life to which he was introduced by the uncles
who had cared for him after the
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the annual W. B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo. In recent years, he has been the recipient of several honorary degrees; he is a member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of artists and writers, and a Foreign Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1996, subsequent to his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, he was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
