One of Ireland's most famous sons Seamus Heaney, poet and Nobel prize winner talks about his experience working with turf on the bogs around Bellaghy Co. Derry in this interview from the early 1990's. | Videos of Irish Farming Life

Seamus Heaney interview, recorded in 1996 Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast

"It was a whole new sweetness in early days to find..." - the widow of renowned Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads out a love poem he wrote for her. Full interview: https://bbc.in/2UwpfdS | The Today Programme