Seamus Heaney’s widow watches on as Joe Biden cites work of late Irish poet

Marie Heaney leaves after US President Joe Biden addressed the Oireachtas Eireann (Liam McBurney/PA)

An emotional Marie Heaney, widow of Seamus Heaney, watched on as Joe Biden cited one of the late Nobel laureate’s best-known works in his Oireachtas address.

Heaney, who died in 2013, is one of the best-known modern Irish poets and has long been a favourite of the US president.