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Seamus Heaney's widow reads love poem

The widow of Irish poet Seamus Heaney read a poem he wrote for her and St Brigid, the patron saint of Ireland.

On St Brigid's Day, Marie Heaney, and daughter Catherine, spoke about the his love of women and poetry on the Today programme.

Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and died in 2013.

(Image: Seamus Heaney, credit: PA)

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