Heaney

Heaney is a surname of Irish origin. People with the name include:

  • Aidan Heaney, a retired English football player
  • Charles Heaney, an American photographer and painter
  • Craig Heaney, a British actor of screen, stage and radio
  • Dermot Heaney, a former Irish Gaelic footballer
  • Francis Heaney, the author of the humor collection Holy Tango of Literature
  • Gerald William Heaney, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals
  • Geraldine Heaney, an Irish-Canadian ice hockey head coach
  • Harry Heaney, an Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry
  • Mark Heaney, a drummer
  • Neil Heaney, an English former footballer
  • Sarah Heaney, a Scottish television presenter
  • Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize
  • Stewart Heaney, Canadian cricketer
  • Thomas Heaney, an Australian rules footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word heaney:

    “At closing time would go
    In waders and peaked cap
    Into the showery dark,
    A dole-kept breadwinner
    But a natural for work.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “the habitual
    Slow consolation
    Of a dawdling engine,”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “It was a day of cold
    Raw silence, wind-blown
    Surplice and soutane:
    Rained-on, flower-laden
    Coffin after coffin
    Seemed to float from the door”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)