Hundreds of people attended the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook when Seamus Heaney's remains were removed on Sunday, September 1.
A large crowd of people, including Heaney’s wife, Marie, and their children Michael, Christopher and Catherine Ann, attended the removal of the remains in respect of the late Nobel laureate poet. A lot of well-known figures attended it, including Minister of Arts Jimmy Deenihan, broadcaster Gay Byrne and poet Theo Dorgan.
The funeral of Seamus Heaney will be held on Monday, September 2 after 11:30 a.m Mass. The burial later in the day will occur in his native country of Derry at Bellaghy Cemetery in Bellaghy. He will be in the same graveyard as his toddler brother Christopher, who he mentioned in one of his greatest poems, Mid-Term Break.
The poet died on Friday at the Blackrock Clinic after a short illness. Heaney was only 74 years old.