Possibly the swiftest route to your roots.
Irish genealogy website directory.
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/heaneys1.shtml
Description:
"Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, the eldest of 9 children and son of a Catholic farmer. Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, he became a lecturer in English literature at the university in 1966, when he also published his first collection of poems, Death of a Naturalist. The opening lines of the first poem of this acclaimed collection, Digging, prefigure the tension that energises so much of Heaney's work: a tension between art and life, past and present, violent action and peaceful contemplation."
