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| Seamus Heaney to be buried in County Derry after Dublin requiem mass | Seamus Heaney to be buried in County Derry after Dublin requiem mass |
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| Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney will be buried in his family's grave in County Derry after a requiem mass in Dublin that more than 1,000 mourners are expected to attend. | |
| The funeral mass on Monday will be led by Father Kevin Doran at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, Dublin. | The funeral mass on Monday will be led by Father Kevin Doran at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook, Dublin. |
| Heaney was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past". | Heaney was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past". |
| In recent years he had suffered poor health and documented his battles with illness in his collection The Human Chain, written after he had a stroke. | |
| Books of condolence will be open on Monday at the Mansion House in Dublin, City Hall in Belfast and the Guildhall in Derry. | Books of condolence will be open on Monday at the Mansion House in Dublin, City Hall in Belfast and the Guildhall in Derry. |
| The Irish president, Michael D Higgins, is among those expected to pay his respects to Heaney, his widow, Marie, and their children, Christopher, Michael and Catherine. | |
| Irish broadcaster RTÉ is also showing the funeral live on television, radio and the internet. |