Who is seamus

Heaney grew up as a country boy and attended the local primary school. As a very young child, he watched American soldiers on manoeuvres in the local fields, in preparation for the Normandy invasion of When he was twelve years of age, Seamus Heaney won a scholarship to St.

It would be followed in years to come by a transfer to Belfast where he lived between and , and by another move from Belfast to the Irish Republic where Heaney has made his home, and then, since , by regular, annual periods of teaching in America.

At St. The first verses he wrote when he was a young teacher in Belfast in the early s and many of the best known poems in North , his important volume published in , are linguistically tuned to the Anglo-Saxon note in English. Station Island reveals Dante, for example, as a crucial influence, and echoes of Virgil — as well as a translation from Book VI of The Aeneid — are to be found in Seeing Things Although Heaney is stylistically and temperamentally different from such writers as Michael Longley and Derek Mahon his contemporaries , and Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson members of a younger Northern Irish generation , he does share with all of them the fate of having be en born into a society deeply divided along religious and political lines, one which was doomed moreover to suffer a quarter-century of violence, polarization and inner distrust.

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Seamus was among the students who bolted for the door when the bell rang and escaped the task of putting the pixies back in their cage, leaving the trio to take care of it. During a History of Magic lesson, Seamus asked Professor Binns if anyone other than the " Heir of Slytherin " would be capable of finding the Chamber of Secrets , to which Binns dismissed his concern, saying that no Hogwarts Headteacher had ever located the Chamber within the castle.

Seamus later attended the first and only meeting of Lockhart's Duelling Club. He was partnered with Ron, and at one point, Ron's damaged wand malfunctioned and knocked Seamus to the ground. Ron helped Seamus to his feet, apologising profusely.

When Harry and Draco Malfoy were chosen to demonstrate blocking spells, Seamus and the rest of the class learned that Harry could speak with snakes. A few days before the start of term, Seamus arrived in Diagon Alley to purchase his school books. Seamus discussing the appearance of Sirius Black near Hogwarts.

In his first Divination lesson with Sybill Trelawney , the class debated whether or not she had seen a Grim in Harry's teacup. Tilting his head from side to side, Seamus expressed his opinion that, tilted right, the tea leaves did resemble a Grim, but tilted left, it looked more like a donkey. Looking excited, he informed them that a Muggle woman had spotted Black and called the special hot line set up by the Ministry of Magic.

When Seamus' turn came to face a Boggart , the non-being turned into a banshee with floor-length black hair and a skeletal green face, representing his greatest inner fear. When the banshee began to shriek, Seamus used the Riddikulus charm to take her voice away; for his participation, Seamus earned five House points.

The residents of Gryffindor Tower in the common room after Sirius Black's break-in. On Hallowe'en , Seamus paid his first visit to Hogsmeade with the rest of the third years. It can be assumed that he largely spend this trip with his best friend Dean.

With the rest of Gryffindor, Seamus was aggravated by the choice of Sir Cadogan to guard the House's portrait hole calling him a "lunatic". When Seamus complained to Head Boy Percy Weasley , Percy replied that Sir Cadogan was the only one who willingly volunteered for the job, as he was unbalanced. Along with most of the school, Seamus went home for the Christmas holidays. When he returned he was impressed that Harry had received a Firebolt for Christmas.

After the Gryffindor Quidditch team defeated Ravenclaw , Seamus was very happy and cheered Harry, along with the other Gryffindors. Seamus was also awoken in the boys' dormitory when Ron announced that Sirius Black had broken into the dormitory with a knife. When Professor Lupin resigned at the end of the year, after being exposed as a werewolf , Seamus was among the students who were sorry to see him go, along with the other Gryffindor students.

Being Irish, the pair obviously supported the latter; their tent was covered with shamrocks. When Seamus ran into Harry , Ron , and Hermione , they assured him that they would be supporting Ireland, as well. Presumably Seamus was delighted when the Irish National Quidditch team won. By the start of term, Seamus was still wearing his Ireland rosette; it still called out the names of the Irish players, albeit feebly and exhaustedly. In his first class, Herbology , he was required to collect bubotuber pus for Professor Sprout.

When Harry's name mysteriously came out of the Goblet of Fire , Seamus was among the students who believed Harry had tricked the Goblet into letting him compete. Seamus confronts Harry Potter over Voldemort's return. On his first night back at school, Seamus got into an argument with Harry Potter about the latter's claim of Lord Voldemort's return. A devout reader of the Daily Prophet , Seamus's mother believed what the papers were saying about Harry and Albus Dumbledore , and had been very reluctant to allow Seamus to return to school.

When Seamus asked Harry what really happened that night, Harry snapped at him to read the Prophet like his mother. When Ron Weasley arrived to break the argument up, Seamus thought that, for believing Harry, Ron was as insane as Harry was. He told Harry that he now believed Voldemort was back and had sent a copy of Harry's interview to his mother.

Seamus and Harry were soon friends again. Seamus' first D. When the students returned to school after Christmas break, Dean Thomas led Seamus to attend his first meeting of Dumbledore's Army.

Seamus was thrilled when he managed to conjure a full Patronus. It disappeared after only a few moments, but was "something hairy. In the spring of , Seamus sat his O. In the autumn of , Seamus tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a Chaser. When Katie Bell was sent to St Mungo's after touching a cursed necklace, Seamus was among the students who disapproved of Harry's choice of Dean Thomas as her replacement; Harry was initially against it, as well, because he knew Seamus would not like it.

However, Harry felt it was the right choice, because Dean had outflown Seamus during the try-outs. When the sixth years learned about Apparition lessons in the spring of , Seamus was among the group of students who were impressed that Harry Potter had already experienced it through Side-Along Apparition with Albus Dumbledore.

The funeral of Albus Dumbledore that Seamus attended. Seamus was not one of the Dumbledore's Army members that answered the call to arms when Hogwarts was invaded by Death Eaters , as he did not keep his DA coin on himself at all times.

After Dumbledore was killed by Professor Snape , Seamus refused to return until after the funeral wanting to pay his respects and say goodbye to his former headmaster, despite his mother insisting he returned home at once. He greatly missed his best friend Dean Thomas , who was forced to go on the run because of his presumed Muggle-born status. Seamus was part of the restored Dumbledore's Army, who ended up staying in the Room of Requirement to escape the Carrows.

The school year was incredibly difficult for Dumbledore's Army. He, along with many others, started to show the cost of standing up to the new regime at Hogwarts: Seamus' face was so bruised that when Harry returned to the school in May of , Seamus was unrecognisable until he spoke.