30.08.2013
Archbishop of Dublin Pays Tribute to Seamus Heaney
Archbishop Michael Jackson has paid tribute to poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney who died today (August 30) at the age of 74.
”Seamus Heaney not only touched the hearts and minds of countless people in Ireland and abroad, he was an ambassador of ideas and of their integrity everywhere anyone read one of his poems,” the Archbishop said.
“He combined critical acumen with classical literary discipline, bringing to bear on the land he loved and its people North and South the depth of his insight, charm and compassion. His work straddled two centuries and two millennia and he carried us lyrically to places we had never been before,” he concluded.