Seamus Heaney died on 30 August 2013 in Dublin. He was buried in his home village of Bellaghy, in the same graveyard as his parents, young brother, and other family members. He texted his final words, "Noli timere" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.
On the 19th May 1966 Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry "Death of a Naturalist" was published by Faber and Faber. The first poem in the book was "Digging". It also contained "Blackberry-Picking" and "Mid-Term Break".
Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".