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Seamus Heaney was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1995, becoming the third Irish poet to win the honor. Here, contributor Yvonne Watterson takes a personal look at some of Heaney's most impactful works.

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℘℘℘ When Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, the Swedish Academy noted the “lyrical beauty and ethical depth” of his work. His poems, though often suffused with allusions to Dante, Homer, and the other greats, are written with startling directness and offer intimate portraits of his life: his mother’s head “bent towards my head,” as they peel potatoes “While All The Others Were Away At Mass,” or his father crying at the funeral of his younger brother in “Mid-Term Break.” Heaney, himself, died unexpectedly at just 74, in 2013, but the inti...