Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney dies: media

Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for

 literature, has died aged 74, local media reported

Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995
Nobel Prize for literature, has died aged 74, local media reported on Friday.
Northern Ireland-born Heaney, whose 12 volumes of poetry include his 1966 debut
 "Death of a Naturalist", "The Spirit Level", and last year's "District and Circle",
 had suffered recently from ill health.