Seamus Heaney - digging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzJgbNANzk

Seamus Heaney.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney

• He was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which contained nine children.
• Heaney grew up as a country boy and attended the local primary school.
• His dad was a cattle dealer.
• When he was twelve-years-old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College.
• Heaney's brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the age of four.
• The poems Mid-Term Break and The Blackbird of Glanmore focus on the death of his brother Christopher.