Nobel prize winners
Seamus Heaney
Five people from Northern Ireland have been awarded Nobel Prizes. 
Four prizes have been awarded to people who have played key roles in the efforts to restore peace and stability.
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were joint winners in 1976 for their leadership of the Peace People movement. John Hume, then leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and David Trimble, now Lord Trimble, the former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, were recognised for their contribution to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Seamus Heaney, poet and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”, in 1995. Born on a farm in Co Derry in 1939, his poetry has always been routed in the farming landscapes of his youth.
