Heaney, SeamusHea‧ney, Sea‧mus /ˈhiːni, ˈʃeɪməs/(1939–2013) an Irish poet. His collections of poems include Death of a Naturalist, The Haw Lantern, and Seeing Things. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and translated Beowulf into modern English in 2000.