Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Biography
- Born April 1939 at Mossbawn (the family farm) in Co. Derry
- Father - farmer and cattle dealer - sparing of talk
- Mother- notably ready to speak out
- Studied eng and
lit in Queens
University Belfast
- Married Marie Devlin, 3 kids
- Lectured in Ireland and Cali
- Moved his family
from Belfast to
Wicklow - put
poetry more central
in his life, escape
the pressures of
being a Catholic
writer working in
the north
- Nobel Prize for Lit in 1995 - "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt
everyday miracles and the living past"