Heaney was born in Northern Ireland, not far from Belfast. As well as being a farmer, his father Patrick was a cattle dealer and his mother Margaret worked in a local Clarks linen factory. His family were catholic and he was raised in the Irish Nationalist Tradition. Seamus got his early education at Anahorish Primary School a short distance from his home.
His teachers Master Murphy and Miss Walls were to feature in his poems Death of a Naturalist and Station Island. In 1957 Heaney travelled to Belfast to study English Language and Literature at Queen's University of Belfast. He began to write and during his third year at university his poems began to appear in the Queen’s literary magazines.
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