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Seamus Heaney

(1939-2013), Poet and Nobel Prize winner

Seamus Justin Heaney

Sitter in 24 portraits
Seamus Heaney was born at Mossbawn, and lived in Dublin from 1976 until his death. 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 Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard from 1985 to 1998. He was selected for numerous awards and honours including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2012.

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Seamus Heaney, by Rollie McKenna - NPG P1672

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1969
NPG P1672

Seamus Heaney, by Peter Edwards - NPG 6023

by Peter Edwards
oil on canvas, 1987-1988
NPG 6023

Seamus Heaney, by Peter Edwards - NPG 7003

by Peter Edwards
pencil, 1987
NPG 7003

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6261

by Ross Wilson
charcoal and pencil, surface worked, 1994
NPG 6261

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(1)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(1)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(2)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(2)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(3)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(3)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(4)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(4)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(5)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(5)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(6)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(6)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(7)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(7)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(8)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(8)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(9)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(9)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(10)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(10)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(11)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(11)

Seamus Heaney, by Ross Wilson - NPG 6262(12)

by Ross Wilson
ink and watercolour, 1994
NPG 6262(12)

Seamus Heaney, by Tai-Shan Schierenberg - NPG 6703

by Tai-Shan Schierenberg
oil on canvas, 2004
NPG 6703

Marie Heaney (née Devlin); Seamus Heaney; Michael Heaney; Christopher Heaney, by Rollie McKenna - NPG x137184

Marie Heaney (née Devlin); Seamus Heaney; Michael Heaney; Christopher Heaney

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1969
NPG x137184

Seamus Heaney, by Edward Lucie-Smith - NPG x17465

by Edward Lucie-Smith
bromide print, May 1970
NPG x17465

Seamus Heaney, by George Newson - NPG x35734

by George Newson
bromide fibre print, 1986
NPG x35734

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