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The life and times of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney in pictures

Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
1.00pm, 30 Aug 2013
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THE DEATH OCCURED today of one Ireland’s greatest writers.

Seamus Heaney was 74 and passed after a short illness.

Here is a selection of photos from his extraordinary life, starting with his Nobel Prize win in 1995.

The life and times of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney in pictures
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    Heaney receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995Source: Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney receiving his Nobel Prize from King Carl Gustaf of SwedenSource: Photocall Ireland

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    Huge crowds turned out to welcome the Nobel Laureate home and Heaney looked to enjoy the occasion.Source: Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney with his wife Maire on his return from Sweden in 1995. Source: Photocall Ireland

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    Keenly socially concious, Heaney is seen here with Dunnes Stores workers at a anti apartheid demonstration in 1985Source: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney in the grounds of University College Dublin where he was presented with the Ulysses medal, the highest honour that the university can bestow. Source: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney drops in on a visit to his old school outside Ballaghy in Co Derry in 2007.Source: Paul Faith/PA Wire

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    Heaney during a ceremony to mark his election of Mr Friel as Saoi in Aosdana in 2006Source: Graham Hughes/Photocall Ireland!

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    Former President Mary Robinson presents Heaney with the Willie Bermingham medal on behalf of ALONE in 2010.Source: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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    Seamus Heaney handing over his literary papers to the National Library of Ireland. Source: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney is today presented with a Distinguished Fellowship Award by Griffith College in 2012.Source: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

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    Earlier this year, Heaney celebrated literature in translation in an evening of readings of his work with six of his long standing translators.Source: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

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    Heaney with Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the Kennedy homestead in Dunganstown Co Wexford in June.Source: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

Read: Poet Seamus Heaney passes away age 74

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