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Seamus Heaney b1939

Turning Points
15 November 1988 Radio 4
Seamus Heaney talks to Bel Mooney about

	his formative years 4 min 21
	doing English at University, the influence of Irish writing 2 min 21

Nightwaves
16 September 1998 Radio 4
Seamus Heaney talks about

	the impact of the troubles on his writing, the bog bodies poems 5 min 26
	naming a collection of poems 1 min 46

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	Seamus Heaney Irish poet, critic and translator Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney has been described as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats". He is probably the most popular poet writing in English today. Read more Further Links Seamus Heaney recites Bogland