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Seamus Heaney Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Beloved Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, often called Ireland’s finest since Yeats, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Comments from Medbh McGuckian and Roy Foster praise his global reach and impact on Irish poetry. Heaney and wife Marie believed abroad. prize carries over $1 million. Heaney’s career includes Wintering Out and North.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Seamus Heaney
Medbh McGuckian
Heaney
Queen's University of Belfast
Seamus
William Butler Yeats
Yeats
All Ireland
Roy Foster
Oxford University
Samuel Beckett
Marie
Londonderry
Derry
Robert Frost
United States
Tom Paulin
Smiie
Queen’s University
Southern Ireland
North
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