Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
In December 1999, Seamus Heaney gave The Sunday Business Post permission to print Bann Valley Eclogue, an extract from which is now reproduced here.
In December 1999, to mark the Millennium, Seamus Heaney gave The Sunday Business Post permission to print Bann Valley Eclogue, which later appeared with some variations in his collection Electric Light (Faber and Faber, 2001). The last verse printed here was omitted from that more widely known version of the poem.
The Post had named Heaney the most outstanding, admired and universally loved figure in Ireland at the end of the 20th century. ...
