Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was an Irish poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. Born in Northern Ireland, Heaney was not an overtly political poet, but his work often reflected on the Troubles, a period of violent sectarian conflict from the late 1960s through the 1990s.
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