2010 Event At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro 1990 Death Tomas O'Fiach, Tomas Seamus Fee, Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies 1986 Death Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25 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
