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Local Enough?

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Which Irish poet, known for poems about farm life and the Irish countryside, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995?

  • A Samuel Beckett
  • ✓ Seamus Heaney
  • ✕ George Bernard Shaw Your answer
  • D W. B. Yeats

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Seamus Heaney, born in County Derry, won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Many Irish students read his poems at school. Yeats won in 1923, Shaw in 1925 and Beckett in 1969.

Source: Nobel Prize organisation (nobelprize.org), Literature 1995

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