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Seamus Heaney

1939–2013 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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"Heaney to speak at Commencement, receive degree".

1996 · ports

A brief item in the From the Hill section of a magazine announcing that Seamus Heaney would speak at the June 1996 graduation of the University of North Carolina and receive an honorary doctor of letters. A photograph accompanies the notice, and the magazine cover carries Bart Forbes's portrait of Heaney with two lines from his poem Digging.

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