2010 Event At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro 1967 Birthday Geraldine Heaney, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics 1953 Birthday Catlin O'Heaney, born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, actress, Snow White-Charmings 1939 Birthday Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation
