Michael's Essay: Seamus Heaney's last words to his wife

They buried Seamus Heaney in his Londonderry village the other day, after a Dublin funeral that brought poets and presidents and rock stars together, as the skirl of uilleann pipes floated in the churchly air.Said the Dublin Archbishop of Ireland's most renowned poet since Yeats: "Greatness and graciousness belonged together in him."...