Remembering Irish Poet Seamus Heaney

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One of the most important poets of the 20th century died today. Seamus Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, died at a hospital in Dublin after a short illness. He was 74. Augustana College writer-in-residence and poet Patrick Hicks met Seamus Heaney a few times when he was living in Northern Ireland and he talks about the poet's accomplishments.

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