On this day 25 years ago: Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney reminiscing in the 'old' part of the library, where he studied when a young man, before he officially opened the new Linenhall Library in Belfast in 2000.
On this day twenty-five years ago, one of Ireland's most profound and beloved literary voices received international recognition and had his place in history cemented.
Seamus Heaney, born in 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran, Northern Ireland, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on December 7th, 1995, "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
