Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, on April 13, 1939. He became one of the foremost poets in the English language and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for his significant contributions to poetry. Heaney's work is celebrated for its exploration of themes related to identity, nature, and the human experience, drawing deeply from his Irish roots.
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Meaning of the name - Seamus
God hears, the Lord has heard
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Seamus Heaney belongs to the Silent Generation group.
Place of Birth: Castledawson
Place of Death: Dublin
Cause of Death: stroke
Educated At: St Columb's College | Queen's University Belfast | Bates College
Occupation: linguist | university teacher | author | translator | playwright | poet | writer | actor
Spouses: Marie Devlin
Employers: University of California, Berkeley | Harvard University
Awards Received: Ulysses Medal | Member of the Royal Irish Academy | Cunningham Medal | honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña | AWB Vincent Literary Award | Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature | Sikkens Prize | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism | St. Louis Literary Award | Poetry Now Award | People of the Year Awards | Golden Wreath | honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow | PEN Translation Prize | Irish PEN Award | Golden Rose Award | Eric Gregory Award | E. M. Forster Award | Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service | Bodley Medal | Flaiano Prize | James Joyce Awards | David Cohen Prize | WH Smith Literary Award | Griffin Poetry Prize | Costa Book Awards | Cholmondeley Award | Irish Book Awards | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | Lannan Literary Awards | Forward Poetry Prize | T. S. Eliot Prize | Horst Bienek Award for Poetry | Duff Cooper Prize | Somerset Maugham Award | Nobel Prize in Literature
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Note: This birth chart is calculated using the date and place of birth, with the time set to noon (12:00 PM) local time. While this provides accurate planetary positions for most celestial bodies, the Ascendant (Rising Sign) and house cusps are not calculated since they require precise birth time. For a complete astrological analysis including houses and rising sign, please provide the exact birth time.Ephemeris for April 13, 1939
Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on April 13, 2026 | Secondary Progressions for April 13, 2026 |
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| Sun | 22 Aries 39 | 23 Aries 34 | 16 Cancer 22 |
| Moon | 12 Aquarius 27 | 1 Pisces 34 | 12 Aries 32 |
| Mercury | 6 Aries 8 | 27 Pisces 44 | 12 Leo 27 |
| Venus | 15 Pisces 34 | 16 Taurus 59 | 0 Cancer 29 |
| Mars | 12 Capricorn 26 | 2 Aries 51 | 3 Aquarius 0 |
| Jupiter | 23 Pisces 59 | 16 Cancer 49 | 8 Aries 4 |
| Saturn | 21 Aries 21 | 6 Aries 59 | 0 Taurus 20 |
| Uranus | 16 Taurus 23 | 29 Taurus 21 | 20 Taurus 59 |
| Neptune | 21 Virgo 9 | 2 Aries 39 | 20 Virgo 55 |
| Pluto | 29 Cancer 13 | 5 Aquarius 23 | 0 Leo 39 |
| Rahu | 9 Scorpio 27 | 6 Pisces 44 | 4 Scorpio 50 |
| Ketu | 9 Taurus 27 | 6 Virgo 44 | 4 Taurus 50 |
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