Borders and boundaries in Northern Ireland and the poetry of Seamus Heaney

Abstract

This essay discusses the borders and boundaries between the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate from Northern Ireland, and the Troubles of the border-riven society from which it stems.

Keywords

• Seamus Heaney
• poetry
• Northern Ireland
• Nobel Prize
• the Troubles
• borders