Heaney

[ hey-nee ]

noun

1. Sea·mus [shey, -m, uh, s], 1939–2013, Irish poet: Nobel Prize 1995.

Heaney

/ ˈhiːnɪ /

noun

1. HeaneySeamus (Justin)1939MIrishWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Seamus ( Justin ) (ˈʃeɪməs). Born 1939, Irish poet and critic, born in Northern Ireland. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), North (1975), The Haw Lantern (1987), The Spirit Level (1996), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010). Nobel prize for literature 1995

Example Sentences

To return to Heaney once more, his caution that you must be “expertly civil-tongued with civil neighbours” rings heavy here.

From Time

Seamus Heaney, among many other things, embodied that central principle: his comic sense was gleefully sharp, but it was not mean.

From The Daily Beast

Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel.

From The Daily Beast

And I have never known anyone with a finer sense of occasion than Seamus Heaney.

From The Daily Beast

A month ago, the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died at age 74.

From The Daily Beast

One might watch and wait for years “balanced between destiny and dread,” Heaney wrote.

From The Daily Beast

Major Heaney went by special train from Kimberley, and Mr. Holden on horseback across country.

From Project Gutenberg