Tag: St Columb’s College

#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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#OTD in 1939 – Birth of poet, Seamus Heaney, near Castledawson, Co Derry.

13/04/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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1939 – Poet, Seamus Heaney, is born in Castledawn, Co Derry.

13/04/2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.” –Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney published his first poetry book in 1966, Death of a Naturalist, creating vivid portraits of rural life. Later work looked at his homeland’s civil war, and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his […]

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