Poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney passed away late last month at the age of 74.
Often called the "greatest Irish poet since Yeats," Heaney's passing was deeply felt throughout his homeland and around the world. In a statement, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny wrote, “Seamus Heaney’s death brings great sorrow to Ireland, to language and to literature. He is mourned -- and deeply -- wherever poetry and the world of the spirit are cherished and celebrated.”
Heaney became the fourth Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995, following William Butler Yeats in 1923, George Bernard Shaw in 1925,...
