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Seamus Justin Heaney
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... Seamus Justin Heaney was born 13 April 1939. Seamus was born and raised on the family farm in Mossbawn, County Derry. Seamus was the eldest of nine children of Patrick and Margaret Kathleen Heaney. His early education took place at the local Anahorish School from 1945 to 1951. From 1951 to 1957 he was a boarder at St. Columb's College in Derry. His life in Mossbawn features prominently in his early work. It is obvious from his early poems that Mossbawn gave him a sense of belonging. A belonging to a farming community, who would have understood each other, on an agricultural level. In 1953 Seamus's infant brother Christopher died in a road accident. Christopher is featured in the poem "Mid-Term Break." From 1957 to 1961 Seamus attends Queen's University, Belfast. He graduates with first-class honours degree in English language and literature. Seamus then takes a postgraduate teacher's training diploma
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