Editing Seamus Heaney (section)

==Death==
[[File:Seamus Heaney grave 3.jpg|thumb|Heaney's grave at [[St. Mary's Church, Bellaghy]]]]
Seamus Heaney died in the [[Blackrock Clinic]] in Dublin on 30 August 2013, aged 74, following a short illness.<ref name="notice">[http://notices.irishtimes.com/29846330 HEANEY, Seamus : Death notice] ''The Irish Times'', 30 September 2013.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McGreevy |first=Ronan |date=30 August 2013 |title=Tributes paid to 'keeper of language' Seamus Heaney |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tributes-paid-to-keeper-of-language-seamus-heaney-1.1510607 |access-date=30 August 2013 |work=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref name="higgins">[http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/higgins-to-lead-mourners-at-funeral-mass-for-poet-29542432.html Higgins to lead mourners at funeral Mass for poet] Sunday Independent, 1 September 2013.</ref> After a fall outside a restaurant in Dublin,<ref name="higgins" /> he entered a hospital for a medical procedure but died at 7:30 the following morning before it took place. His funeral was held in [[Donnybrook, Dublin|Donnybrook]], Dublin, on the morning of 2 September 2013, and he was buried in the evening at [[St. Mary's Church, Bellaghy]] his home village, in the same graveyard as his parents, younger brother, and other family members.<ref name="notice" /><ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/seamus-heaney-laid-to-rest-in-bellaghy-1.1513785 "Seamus Heaney laid to rest in Bellaghy"], ''Irish Times'', 2 September 2013.</ref> His son Michael revealed at the funeral mass that his father texted his final words, "''Noli timere''" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.<ref name="belfast" /><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/02/seamus-heaney-last-words-funeral "Seamus Heaney's last words were 'Noli timere', son tells funeral"], ''The Guardian'', 2 September 2013.</ref><ref>Heaney, Mick (12 September 2015) [http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/mick-heaney-my-father-s-famous-last-words-1.2348525 "Mick Heaney: My father's famous last words; Seamus Heaney's son writes about his father's final message to his family: 'Noli timere'"], ''The Irish Times''.</ref>

His funeral was broadcast live the following day on [[RTÉ]] television and radio and was streamed internationally at RTÉ's website. [[RTÉ Radio 1 Extra]] transmitted a continuous broadcast, from 8 a.m. to 9:15&nbsp;p.m. on the day of the funeral, of his ''[[Seamus Heaney Collected Poems|Collected Poems]]'' album, recorded by Heaney in 2009.<ref>[http://www.thejournal.ie/seamus-heaney-funeral-1063647-Sep2013/ "Funeral of Seamus Heaney to be broadcast live on RTÉ"], TheJournal.ie, 1 September 2013.</ref> His poetry collections sold out rapidly in Irish bookshops immediately following his death.<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/heaney-books-sell-out-amid-massive-demand-1.1517133 "Heaney books sell out amid massive demand"], ''Irish Times'', 5 September 2013.</ref>

Many tributes were paid to Heaney. President [[Michael D. Higgins]] said:
{{blockquote|...we in Ireland will once again get a sense of the depth and range of the contribution of Seamus Heaney to our contemporary world, but what those of us who have had the privilege of his friendship and presence will miss is the extraordinary depth and warmth of his personality...Generations of Irish people will have been familiar with Seamus' poems. Scholars all over the world will have gained from the depth of the critical essays, and so many rights organisations will want to thank him for all the solidarity he gave to the struggles within the republic of conscience.<ref>[http://www.president.ie/uncategorized/statement-from-aras-an-uachtarain-seamus-heaney/ Statement from Áras an Uachtaráin – Seamus Heaney] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525232149/http://www.president.ie/uncategorized/statement-from-aras-an-uachtarain-seamus-heaney/ |date=25 May 2014 }} Áras an Uachtaráin, 30 August 2013.</ref>}}President Higgins also appeared live from [[Áras an Uachtaráin]] on the [[RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock|''Nine O'Clock News'']] in a five-minute segment in which he paid tribute to Seamus Heaney.<ref>{{YouTube|_RB3Agnpz14|President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to his friend Seamus Heaney}} RTÉ News, 31 August 2013.</ref>

[[Bill Clinton]], former President of the United States, said:
{{blockquote|Both his stunning work and his life were a gift to the world. His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives and a powerful voice for peace...His wonderful work, like that of his fellow Irish Nobel Prize winners Shaw, Yeats, and Beckett, will be a lasting gift for all the world.<ref name="tributes-bbc">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23899646 Tributes to Seamus Heaney], BBC News Northern Ireland, 30 August 2013.</ref>}}

[[José Manuel Barroso]], European Commission president, said:
{{blockquote|I am greatly saddened today to learn of the death of Seamus Heaney, one of the great European poets of our lifetime. ... The strength, beauty and character of his words will endure for generations to come and were rightly recognised with the Nobel Prize for Literature.<ref name="tributes-bbc" />}}Harvard University issued a statement: {{blockquote|We are fortunate and proud to have counted Seamus Heaney as a revered member of the Harvard family. For us, as for people around the world, he epitomised the poet as a wellspring of humane insight and artful imagination, subtle wisdom and shining grace. We will remember him with deep affection and admiration.<ref name="tributes-bbc" />}}

Poet [[Michael Longley]], a close friend of Heaney, said: "I feel like I've lost a brother."<ref name=bbc_death/> [[Thomas Kinsella]] said he was shocked, but [[John Montague (poet)|John Montague]] said he had known for some time that the poet was not well.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 August 2013 |title=President and Taoiseach lead tributes to the late Seamus Heaney: Tributes paid to the Nobel Laureate who died this morning at the age of 74 |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/president-and-taoiseach-lead-tributes-to-the-late-seamus-heaney-29539156.html |access-date=30 August 2013 |work=Irish Independent}}</ref> Playwright [[Frank McGuinness]] called Heaney "the greatest Irishman of my generation: he had no rivals."<ref name="guardian_tributes">{{Cite news |last=Higgins |first=Charlotte |last2=McDonald |first2=Henry |date=30 August 2013 |title=Seamus Heaney's death 'leaves breach in language itself': Tributes flow in from fellow writers after poet who won Nobel prize for literature dies in Dublin aged 74 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney-death-breach-language |access-date=30 August 2013 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Colm Tóibín]] wrote: "In a time of burnings and bombings Heaney used poetry to offer an alternative world."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tóibín |first=Colm |author-link=Colm Tóibín |date=30 August 2013 |title=Seamus Heaney's books were events in our lives |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney-books-poetry-colm-toibin |access-date=30 August 2013 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Gerald Dawe]] said he was "like an older brother who encouraged you to do the best you could do".<ref name=guardian_tributes/> [[Theo Dorgan]] said, "[Heaney's] work will pass into permanence. Everywhere I go there is real shock at this. Seamus was one of us." His publisher, [[Faber and Faber]], noted that "his impact on literary culture is immeasurable."<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 August 2013 |title=Heaney deserves place among the pantheon, says Dorgan |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/heaney-deserves-place-among-the-pantheon-says-dorgan-1.1510770 |access-date=30 August 2013 |work=The Irish Times}}</ref> Playwright [[Tom Stoppard]] said, "Seamus never had a sour moment, neither in person nor on paper".<ref name=guardian_tributes/> [[Andrew Motion]], a former [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|UK Poet Laureate]] and friend of Heaney, called him "a great poet, a wonderful writer about poetry, and a person of truly exceptional grace and intelligence."<ref name="bbc_death">{{Cite news |date=30 August 2013 |title=Poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23898891 |access-date=30 August 2013 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

Many memorial events were held, including a commemoration at Emory University,<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 September 2014 |title=Emory honors literary icon with 'A Tribute to Seamus Heaney' |url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/09/er_heaney_tribute_coverage/campus.html |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> Harvard University, Oxford University and the [[Southbank Centre]], London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Tribute To Seamus Heaney |url=http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/a-tribute-to-seamus-heaney-79180 |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 November 2013 |title=Seamus Heaney: A Memorial Celebration |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2zUbI8KMjUKvCOQioXDxpX9tZnPydko |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 2013 |title=A poet's own epitaphs |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/a-poets-own-epitaphs/ |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bodleian Library – SPECIAL EVENT: Oxford Tribute to Seamus Heaney |url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/whats-on/upcoming-events/2014/feb/oxford-tribute-to-seamus-heaney |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> Leading US poetry organisations also met in New York to commemorate the death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poets Gather to Remember Seamus Heaney in New York City on 11 November at 7:00 p.m. |url=http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/stanza/poets-gather-remember-seamus-heaney-new-york-city-november-11-700-pm |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref>