Celebrated Irish poet Seamus Heaney was a powerful voice for peace who touched the hearts of generations of readers.
HE was a snowy-haired, craggy mountain of a man; a man who radiated granite integrity and deep kindness. He was a poet, among the greatest of our era, and the first of his nation to win the Nobel prize since Yeats.
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