Editing Seamus Heaney (section)

===1970–1984===
{{further|topic=his works during this period|Wintering Out|North (poetry collection)|Field Work (poetry collection)|Selected Poems 1965–1975}}
Heaney taught as a visiting professor in English at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in the 1970–1971 academic year.<ref name="OShea2016">{{Cite journal |last=O'Shea |first=Edward |year=2016 |title=Seamus Heaney at Berkeley, 1970–71 |journal=Southern California Quarterly |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=157–193 |doi=10.1525/ucpsocal.2016.98.2.157 |issn=0038-3929}}</ref> In 1972, he left his lectureship in Belfast, moved to [[Wicklow]] in the Republic of Ireland, and began writing on a full-time basis. That year, he published his third collection, ''[[Wintering Out]]''. His daughter Catherine Ann was born in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title= Heaney, Seamus Justin |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/heaney-seamus-justin-a10036 |author= O'Donoghue, Bernard |work= The Dictionary of Irish Biography |access-date= 31 January 2025}}</ref> In 1975, Heaney's next volume, ''[[North (poetry collection)|North]]'', was published.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seamus Heaney |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/heaney/biographical/ |website=Nobel Prize}}</ref> A pamphlet of prose poems entitled ''[[Stations (poetry collection)|Stations]]'' was published the same year.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Floyd Collins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfHKH2HlwbYC&pg=PA76 |title=Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity |publisher=University of Delaware Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-87413-805-4 |page=76}}</ref>

In 1976 Heaney was appointed Head of English at [[Carysfort College]] in Dublin and moved with his family to the suburb of [[Sandymount]]. His next collection, ''[[Field Work (poetry collection)|Field Work]]'', was published in 1979. ''[[Selected Poems 1965-1975]]'' and ''Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978'' were published in 1980. When ''[[Aosdána]],'' the national Irish Arts Council, was established in 1981, Heaney was among those elected into its first group. (He was subsequently elected a ''[[Saoi]],'' one of its five elders and its highest honour, in 1997).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Biography |url=http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Heaney.aspx |work=Aosdána}}</ref>

Also in 1981, Heaney travelled to the United States as a visiting professor at Harvard, where he was affiliated with [[Adams House (Harvard University)|Adams House]]. He was awarded two honorary doctorates, from Queen's University and from [[Fordham University]] in New York City (1982). At the Fordham commencement ceremony on 23 May 1982, Heaney delivered his address as a 46-stanza poem entitled "Verses for a Fordham Commencement."<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2013 |title=Fordham Notes: Seamus Heaney's "Verses for a Fordham Commencement" |url=http://fordhamnotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/seamus-heaneys-verses-for-fordham.html |access-date=3 November 2016 |website=Fordham Notes}}</ref>

Born and educated in Northern Ireland, Heaney stressed that he was Irish and not British.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2013 |title=Irish Nobel Prize Poet Seamus Heaney Dies Aged 74 -VIDEO |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/502601/20130830/seamus-heaney-died-irish-poet.htm |access-date=30 August 2013 |publisher=Ibtimes.co.uk}}</ref> Following the success of the [[Field Day Theatre Company]]'s production of [[Brian Friel]]'s ''[[Translations (play)|Translations]],'' the founders Brian Friel and [[Stephen Rea]] decided to make the company a permanent group. Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors in 1981.<ref>''The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney'', "Heaney in Public" by [[Dennis O'Driscoll]] (p56-72). {{ISBN|0-521-54755-5}}.</ref> In autumn 1984, his mother, Margaret, died.<!-- re [[WP:SEASON]] this should really be "18 October 1984", but unable to find a RS source --><ref name="parker-2212" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Barclay Agency profile |url=http://barclayagency.com/heaney.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508153854/http://barclayagency.com/heaney.html |archive-date=8 May 2012 |access-date=30 August 2013 |publisher=Barclayagency.com}}</ref> Three years later he would publish eight [[sonnet]]s, under the title ''Clearances'', as a tribute to his mother.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57042/clearances|title=Clearances|website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fawbie.info/category/the-haw-lantern/clearances/|title=Clearances by Seamus Heaney - Analysis}}</ref>