Seamus Heaney's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

In the record

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1995 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1995 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Seamus Heaney's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Seamus Heaney. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

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Seamus Heaney in the public record

He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran, near Castledawson, Northern Ireland. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University, and began to have his poetry published.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Seamus Heaney (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Seamus Heaney, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature.

Also on the record

1. He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1976 until his death.
2. He was a part-time resident of the United States from 1981 to 2006, while he was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997 and their Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006.
3. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
4. In 1996 he was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of Aosdána.

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• E. Donnall Thomas — 1990 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil von Behring — 1901 Physiology or Medicine
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• 13 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Seamus Heaney's birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. April 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Seamus Heaney's dates come from?

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