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He received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist , his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats ", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland , have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".

Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge , Northern Ireland. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy.

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He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early s, after attending Queen's University , and began to publish poetry. He lived in Sandymount , Dublin, from until his death. He was a professor at Harvard from to , and their Poet in Residence from to From to , he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

He received numerous prestigious awards.