iamBullivant<p>Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann. </p><p>Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NorthernIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernIreland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CountyLondonderry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountyLondonderry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NobelPrizeForLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrizeForLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>