Seamus Heaney
Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, has offered the following statement regarding the death of Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney:
“When the University of Notre Dame conferred an honorary degree upon Seamus Heaney at our Keough-Naughton Centre in Ireland in 2008, we recognized not only a literary giant, but a poet whose spiritual voice will live on through the ages.”
Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature, visited Notre Dame for a poetry reading that year, shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize, and again in 2003. He died today (Aug. 30) in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 74.
Originally published by at news.nd.edu on August 30, 2013.