Personalities
Seamus Heaney
Seamus was born in Broagh, Castledawson, in the same year
as our club was formed. The house and farmland now have new occupants. Local residents
will pinpoint the homestead as adjoining Hillhead Hall on the Toome road. We are
proud to have had Seamus play minor football for our club. He began his education
at Annarhorish primary school then on to St Columb’s in Derry and then Queen’s University
Belfast.
Seamus is a nephew of one of our most famous sons, the late Matt ‘Sonny’ McCann.
He spent much of his younger days in and around Castledawson. Barney and Frank Devlin,
both club members, who for years produced and directed a sucessful dramatic society
in Bellaghy and Castledawson and numbered Seamus Heaney as a talent in their group.
As a young man his performances, even then, showed that Seamus’ interested lay in
literature, not in football. Our gratitude and thanks are also due to Seamus because
in his poetry and writing he helped us understand that the outside world is not
outside, but instead what we are made of.
Seamus we are proud to include you with our founders, players and members past and
present and extend to you our congratulations on being awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize
for Literature.
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