Poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74 Published duration 30 August 2013

image caption Heaney won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1995

Seamus Heaney, acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats, has died aged 74.

Heaney was born near Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, but as a child moved to Bellaghy.

He was a teacher and then had a distinguished career in poetry, winning the Nobel prize for literature in 1995.