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Seamus Heaney celebrated

Seamus Heaney, pictured in 2009

What Seamus Heaney's letters tell us about his life and poetry

'Heaney appears to political speechwriters, as a beloved Irish icon, who wrote about truth and justice beautifully, powerfully and without prejudice, capturing the world's attention in the process'

Why are politicians so fond of quoting Seamus Heaney?

Seamus Heaney remembered - classics from the RTÉ Archives

Seamus Heaney remembered - classics from the RTÉ Archives

Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and the Barrie Cooke archive

Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and the Barrie Cooke archive

The Letters of Séamus Heaney - RTÉ Arena on an epistolary event

The Letters of Séamus Heaney - RTÉ Arena on an epistolary event

Seamus Heaney remembered on RTÉ lyric fm's Classical Daytime

Seamus Heaney remembered on RTÉ lyric fm's Classical Daytime

Sunday Miscellany: A 10th anniversary tribute for Seamus Heaney

Sunday Miscellany: A 10th anniversary tribute for Seamus Heaney

Heaney remembered: Professor Heaney at Oxford

Heaney remembered: Professor Heaney at Oxford

Heaney Remembered: Sweeney with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Heaney Remembered: Sweeney with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Heaney remembered: Professor Heaney at Harvard

Heaney remembered: Professor Heaney at Harvard

Heaney remembered: The Arts Show celebrates Seamus Heaney at 70

Heaney remembered: The Arts Show celebrates Seamus Heaney at 70

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrated by Sunday Miscellany

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrated by Sunday Miscellany

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney's collected poems celebrated

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney's collected poems celebrated

Heaney remembered: Stepping Stones with Heaney & O'Driscoll

Heaney remembered: Stepping Stones with Heaney & O'Driscoll

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney talks District and Circle

Heaney Remembered: Seamus Heaney talks District and Circle

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrates his 65th birthday

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney celebrates his 65th birthday

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney at the Poetry Now Festival

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney at the Poetry Now Festival

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney - Reading the Future

Heaney remembered: Seamus Heaney - Reading the Future