RIP

VIDEOS: Seamus Heaney on life, love and poetry

The Nobel Laureate has died at the age of 74.

ONE OF IRELAND’S most respected poets, Seamus Heaney, has died at the age of 74.

The Nobel Laureate was a world famous wordsmith, but was nowhere more beloved than in his home country.

These videos show the Heaney people know and love – poet, playwright, thinker and story-teller.

Celebrating Ireland and Europe

(IrelandForEurope/YouTube)

Reading ‘When all the others were away at Mass’

(luckdial/YouTube)

1992 Documentary

(DocuMentalesTeVe/YouTube)

Making sense of life

(The NewsHouse/YouTube)

A 2011 interview about his recent work, Human Chain

(PBS NewsHour)

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