Craig, Patricia (30 August 2013). "Seamus Heaney obituary: Nobel Prize-winning Irish Poet". The Independent. Independent Print Limited . Retrieved 30 August 2013.

Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5, 1976, Volume 7, 1977, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 25, 1983, Volume 37, 1986, Volume 74, 1993, Volume 91, 1996. Naughton, John (8 May 2011). "Britain's top 300 intellectuals". The Observer. Guardian Media Group . Retrieved 8 May 2011. An excellent collection of poetry that explores how violence can echo through history. I found it a little abstruse at times but that might well have been because my broken thinker was being a little obtuse. Taking the form of a toast – with the glass raised in honour not only of the sloe gin but also the woman who made it – this poem beautifully captures the full-on sensory experience of drinking sloe gin, from opening the bottle to smell the ‘disturbed tart stillness of a bush’ to way the drink flames in the glass ‘like Betelgeuse’. Next time you drink a slog of sloe gin, remember this poem. Further informationon his works during this period: Station Island (poetry), The Haw Lantern, The Cure at Troy, and The Spirit Level (poetry collection) Marie and Seamus Heaney at the Dominican Church, Kraków, Poland, 4 October 1996Ronan McGreevy (18 November 2011). "Heaney honoured at book awards". The Irish Times . Retrieved 23 April 2019. Deane, Seamus. "The Appetites of Gravity: Contemporary Irish Poetry." The Sewanee Review Vol. 84, No. 1 (Winter 1976). P. 199-208. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27543074 In 1988 Heaney donated his lecture notes to the Rare Book Library of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, after giving the notable Ellmann Lectures there. [40]

a b Heaney, Seamus (25 October 2003). "Bags of enlightenment". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 October 2003. An exception to the miserabilist slant of the collection is the first poem, which recalls his childhood in Northern Ireland. Tellingly called ‘Sunlight’, it talks of baking, and has the magical lines In 1985 Heaney wrote the poem "From the Republic of Conscience" at the request of Amnesty International Ireland. He wanted to "celebrate United Nations Day and the work of Amnesty". [38] The poem inspired the title of Amnesty International's highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. [39] a b c Higgins, Charlotte; McDonald, Henry (30 August 2013). "Seamus Heaney's death 'leaves breach in language itself': Tributes flow in from fellow writers after poet who won Nobel prize for literature dies in Dublin aged 74". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 August 2013. Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997, and Poet in Residence there from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In 1996 he was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of Aosdána. He received numerous presitigious awards.

In 1963 Heaney began lecturing at St Joseph's, and joined the Belfast Group, a poets' workshop organized by Philip Hobsbaum, then an English lecturer at Queen's University. Through this, Heaney met other Belfast poets, including Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. [19] Finally, it exhorts him, rely confidently on the ‘touch’ and ‘texture’ of things and events you have witnessed ( trust the feel of what nubbed treasure/ your hands have known ). Andrew Motion (17 August 2014). "Door into the Dark opened the portals to a different future". The Guardian. a b Corcoran, Neil (30 August 2013). "Seamus Heaney obituary". the Guardian . Retrieved 19 November 2023.