Seamus Heaney has been played on NTS in shows including Happy Death w/ Ed Horrox, featured first on 9 February 2023. Songs played include Bogland and Personal Helicon .

Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the early 1960s he became a lecturer in Belfast after attending university there, and began to publish poetry. Heaney resided in Sandymount, Dublin from 1972 onward.

Heaney became a member of Aosdána when it was formed in 1981 and was elected Saoi in 1997. He…