Seamus Heaney (1939-), Poet and Nobel Prize winner
Seamus Justin Heaney
Sitter associated with 23 portraits
Seamus Heaney was born at Mossbawn, and has lived in Dublin since 1976. His publications include Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), The Haw Lantern (1987) and The Spirit Level (1996). His modern translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, won him a second Whitbread Book of the Year Prize in 2000. Heaney held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1989 until 1994 and spends part of each year teaching at Harvard, where he has been Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory since 1985. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His most recent volume of poetry, The Riverbank Field, was published in 2007.
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by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1969
NPG P1672
by Ross Wilson
charcoal and pencil, surface worked, 1994
NPG 6261
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(1)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(2)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
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by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(4)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
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by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(6)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
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by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(8)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(9)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(10)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(11)
by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(12)
by Tai-Shan Schierenberg
oil on canvas, 2004
NPG 6703
Marie Heaney (née Devlin); Seamus Heaney; Michael Heaney; Christopher Heaney
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by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1969
NPG x137184
by (John) Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith
bromide print, May 1970
NPG x17465
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, June 1996
NPG x88253
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print from original negative, June 1996
NPG x125843
by Mark Gerson
cibachrome print from original transparency, June 1996
NPG x76834
Bellaghy Bawn, Bellaghy, Northern Ireland
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