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Seamus Heaney in South Africa

November 29, 2017 Chris Heaney

Seamus Heaney (right) at an anti-apartheid demonstration in Dublin, 1985, protesting at the import of South African fruit by Dunnes Stores. — Seamus Heaney (right) at an anti-apartheid demonstration in Dublin, 1985, protesting at the import of South African fruit by Dunnes Stores.

In late August 2002, Seamus Heaney visited South Africa to receive an honorary degree from Rhodes University and to participate in a tribute to Rhodes professor Malvern Van Wyk Smith. It was his first and only trip to Africa...