Seamus Heaney is buried in Bellaghy Co Londonderry

Name: Seamus Heaney is buried in Bellaghy Co Londonderry
Uploaded: 2013-09-02T18:02:36.000Z
Duration: 2 min 10 s
Description: Seamus Heaney's final words to his wife were 'do not be afraid', sent in a text message from his hospital bed, mourners at the poet's funeral are told.

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Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been laid to rest in his native Bellaghy in County Londonderry.

Acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats, the 74-year-old died in a Dublin hospital on Friday.

Keiron Tourish reports.

Northern Ireland

2 September 2013