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Season 1 • Episode 660: Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 660: Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

December 30, 2019

Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney became the finest poet of his generation and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 - but his career also coincided with one of the bloodiest political upheavals of the 20th century, the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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