NOBEL PRIZE - Seamus Heaney

https://special-ireland.com/seamus-heaney-a-nobel-celebration/

Died: 30 August 2013, Dublin, Ireland

Residence at the time of the award: Ireland

Prize motivation: “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”

Language: English

Prize share: 1/1

Life

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, where his family engaged in farming and selling cattle. His education included studies at Queen’s University in Belfast, where he also served as a lecturer at the end of the 1960s. He made his debut as a poet then, but continued to divide his time between his own writing and academia. He worked at Carysfort College in Dublin, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Oxford University. Seamus Heaney was married and had three children.

Work

Seamus Heaney’s poetry is often down-to-earth. For Heaney, poetry was like the earth—something that must be plowed and turned. Often he paints the gray and damp Irish landscape; peat moss has a special place in his poetry. The poems often are connected with daily experiences, but they also derive motifs from history, all the way back to prehistoric times. Heaney’s profound interest in the Celtic and the pre-Christian as well as in Catholic literary tradition has found expression in a number of essays and translations.

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When I read the summary of the life of this great Man, Mr. Seamus Heaney, on the main page of the NOBEL PRIZE website - saying that he was born in the 1940s, when I was also born, being the oldest son of a family of 7 brothers; and I the oldest of a family of 7 Brothers, which reminded me of the Affective Memory of the Altruistic Feeling of my Dear Mother, daughter, of a couple of Coffee farmers having 19 brothers, teaching us to know how to subordinate selfishness to Altruism; that is, to know how to subordinate Personality under Sociability; and simultaneously the Scientific Memory of my Father, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, of the Chair of Biochemistry, with his teachings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, where we all sat around a long table, with him at the head clarifying the Doubts, of the teachings received from my grandfather whose great-grandmother was the Swiss Agatha Jecker married to the Frenchman Antoine Lacaze in 1831.

I was educated morally to live in a country of amorality, for that reason I was highly misunderstood by the powerful Rulers.

But I managed to find my inspiration in the Sciences of Scientific and Moral Sociology in the house where I spent my childhood and adolescence at Praça São Salvador No. 3, in Rio de Janeiro, from where I went on to the most diverse patrimonial and managerial activities, as can be seen in my Resume.

In 1985 I began attending the Positivist Temple of Brazil, when I met Admiral

Alfredo de Morais Filho, who gave me his library of great cultural heritage, based on Positivism, from the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who later in 2002, helped me suggest new ideas for a political regime - the SOCIETOCRATIC REPUBLICAN.

We must have courage, prudence and, above all, PERSEVERANCE, in order to achieve our goals.