Seamus Heaney died on 30 August 2013 in Dublin. He was buried in his home village of Bellaghy, in the same graveyard as his parents, young brother, and other family members. He texted his final words, "Noli timere" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.

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Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann.

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

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