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When did Seamus Heaney start making music?

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Seamus Heaney's first song “Storm on the Island” released in 1966.


Seamus Justin Heaney (April 13, 1939 – August 30, 2013) was an Irish poet and playwright, academic, journalist and educator.

He was born on a farm in the Castledàwson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, the first of nine children in a Catholic family. He received a scholarship to attend St. Columb’s College in Derry and went on to Queens... Read More
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