Editing Seamus Heaney (section)

===2010s===
He spoke at the [[Féile an Phobail|West Belfast Festival]] in July 2010 in celebration of his mentor, the poet and novelist [[Michael McLaverty]], who had helped Heaney to first publish his poetry.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Féile an Phobail, Festival of the People, 2010 programme |url=http://www.feilebelfast.com/news/august-feile-2010-programme-online/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823030106/http://www.feilebelfast.com/news/august-feile-2010-programme-online/ |archive-date=23 August 2010 |access-date=12 July 2010 |work=Official website}} Archived at Wayback Engine.</ref>

In September 2010 Faber published ''[[Human Chain (poetry collection)|Human Chain]]'', Heaney's twelfth collection. ''Human Chain'' was awarded the [[Forward Prize|Forward Poetry Prize]] for Best Collection, one of the major poetry prizes Heaney had never previously won, despite having been twice shortlisted.<ref name="benedicte_page_forward_prize">{{Cite news |last=Page |first=Benedicte |date=6 October 2010 |title=Seamus Heaney wins £10k Forward poetry prize for Human Chain |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/06/seamus-heaney-forward-poetry-prize?INTCMP=SRCH |access-date=6 October 2010 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |date=22 August 2010 |title=Human Chain by Seamus Heaney |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/22/seamus-heaney-human-chain-faber?INTCMP=SRCH |access-date=22 August 2010 |work=The Observer}}</ref> The book, published 44 years after the poet's first, was inspired in part by Heaney's stroke in 2006, which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judge [[Ruth Padel]] described the work as "a collection of painful, honest and delicately weighted poems ... a wonderful and humane achievement."<ref name=benedicte_page_forward_prize/> Writer [[Colm Tóibín]] described ''Human Chain'' as "his best single volume for many years, and one that contains some of the best poems he has written... is a book of shades and memories, of things whispered, of journeys into the underworld, of elegies and translations, of echoes and silences."<ref name="toibin_human_chain">{{Cite news |last=Tóibín |first=Colm |author-link=Colm Tóibín |date=21 August 2010 |title=Human Chain by Seamus Heaney – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/21/seamus-heaney-human-chain-review |access-date=21 August 2010 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> In October 2010, the collection was shortlisted for the [[T. S. Eliot Prize]].

Heaney was named one of "Britain's top 300 intellectuals" by ''[[The Observer]]'' in 2011, though the newspaper later published a correction acknowledging that "several individuals who would not claim to be British" had been featured, of which Heaney was one.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Naughton |first=John |date=8 May 2011 |title=Britain's top 300 intellectuals |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/may/08/top-300-british-intellectuals |access-date=8 May 2011 |work=The Observer}}</ref> That same year,<!-- 2011 --> he contributed translations of [[Old Irish]] [[marginalia]] for ''[[Songs of the Scribe]]'', an album by Traditional Singer in Residence of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, [[Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin]].<ref>[http://journalofmusic.com/radar/songs-scribe-sung-padraigin-ni-uallachain "Songs of the Scribe Sung by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin"]. ''Journal of Music''. 6 December 2011.</ref>

In December 2011 Heaney donated his personal literary notes to the [[National Library of Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Telford |first=Lyndsey |date=21 December 2011 |title=Seamus Heaney declutters home and donates personal notes to National Library |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/arts/seamus-heaney-declutters-home-and-donates-personal-notes-to-national-library-2970392.html |access-date=21 December 2011 |work=Irish Independent}}</ref> Even though he admitted he would likely have earned a fortune by auctioning them, Heaney personally packed up the boxes of notes and drafts and, accompanied by his son Michael, delivered them to the National Library.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Madden |first=Anne |date=22 December 2011 |title=Seamus Heaney's papers go to Dublin, but we don't mind, insists QUB |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/seamus-heaneys-papers-go-to-dublin-but-we-dont-mind-insists-qub-28694856.html |access-date=22 December 2011 |work=Belfast Telegraph}}</ref>

In June 2012 Heaney accepted the [[Griffin Poetry Prize|Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry's Lifetime Recognition Award]] and gave a speech in honour of the award.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prize |first=Griffin Poetry |date=7 June 2012 |title=2012 – Seamus Heaney |url=http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/lifetime-recognition-award/2012-seamus-heaney/ |access-date=1 September 2013 |work=Griffin Poetry Prize}}</ref>

Heaney was compiling a collection of his work in anticipation of ''Selected Poems 1988–2013'' at the time of his death. The selection includes poems and writings from ''Seeing Things'', ''The Spirit Level'', the translation of ''[[Beowulf: A New Verse Translation|Beowulf]]'', ''Electric Light'', ''District and Circle'', and ''Human Chain'' (fall 2014).

In February 2014 [[Emory University]] premiered ''Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens'', the first major exhibition to celebrate the life and work of Seamus Heaney since his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens |url=http://web.library.emory.edu/news-events/exhibitions/seamus-heaney-the-music-of-what-happens.html |website=Emory Library}}</ref> The exhibit holds a display of the surface of Heaney's personal writing desk that he used in the 1980s as well as old photographs and personal correspondence with other writers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens |url=http://www.atlantaplanit.com/events/event.php?eid=55136 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101707/http://www.atlantaplanit.com/events/event.php?eid=55136 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref>
Heaney died in August 2013 during the curatorial process of the exhibition. Though the exhibit's original vision to celebrate Heaney's life and work remains at the forefront, there is a small section commemorating his death and its influence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 January 2014 |title=Woodruff Library Welcomes Seamus Heaney Exhibit |url=https://emorywheel.com/woodruff-library-welcomes-seamus-heaney-exhibit/}}</ref>

In September 2015 it was announced that Heaney's family would posthumously publish his translation of Book VI of ''[[The Aeneid]]'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alison Flood |date=10 September 2015 |title=New Seamus Heaney translation to be published next year |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/10/new-seamus-heaney-translation-to-be-published-next-year |website=The Guardian}}</ref>