Websites
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The Poetry Foundation has tons of Heaney info, poems, links, and awesome audio archives of Heaney's poems. It's a great place to start learning about his life and work.
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There's more good Heaney info here.
Video
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Check out a smattering of readings from Heaney in the wake of his death.
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PBS looks back at Heaney's life.
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Poet Paul Muldoon talks after Heaney's funeral.
Audio
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Listen to Heaney in conversation on poetry (what else) with Michael Laskey.
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The Poetry Foundation lets you listen to a good chunk of Heaney poems read by the man himself.
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Heaney wins the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1995. Hear his lecture here.
Images
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Here's what the horse drawn plow in the poem might have looked like.
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Here's what the plow itself might have looked like.
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Dig this Heaney headshot.
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Here's handsome Heaney back in the day.
Articles and Interviews
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In an article for The Atlantic Monthly, Heaney discusses his predecessor, W.B. Yeats.
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American poet, Henri Cole gets in depth, Barbara Walters style, in this interview with Heaney for Paris Review.
Books
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This collection ("Follower" is in here) put Heaney on the map.
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While we wait with baited breath for the collected poems of Heaney to be published, we can get a good selection from Opened Ground.
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The New York Review of Books gives links to several notable books of criticism on Heaney.
Movies & TV
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Check out this Heaney biographical flick.
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Here's a gaggle of Irish grade schoolers in conversation with Heaney.