Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Nobel Seamus
Heaney is the first Nobel Prize-winning poet from Ireland since W.B. Yeats. You go, Sham. (Source.)
Friends in High Places
Heaney is buds with former U.S. president, Bill Clinton. Unroll the red carpet; we've got some high rollers coming through. (Source.)
Schooled
Heaney's interest in poetry began when his intermediate school headmaster introduced him to Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh. That's like a young Lebron James meeting all-time great MJ and deciding he's next. (Source.)