Heaney's brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the
age of four while Heaney was studying at St. Columb's.
Heaney's brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the
age of four while Heaney was studying at St. Columb's College.
At St. Columb's College, Heaney was taught Latin and Irish,
and these languages, together with the Anglo-Saxon which he would study while a student of Queen's University, Belfast, were determining factors in many of the developments and retrenchments which have marked his progress as a poet.