The eldest of nine children raised on a small farm called Mossbawn in County Derry – which was so crucial to his imaginative development – his first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was accepted for publication by Faber when he was just 26.

Source: https://theconversation.com/seamus-heaney-ten-years-after-his-death-the-generosity-and-warmth-of-his-rich-poetic-voice-endures-220251