Dec 29, 2009

Autobiographies | Compare and Contrast

• 1920s: In 1923, Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Today: The Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. The 1998 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to two Irishmen seeking to find a solution to the violence still besetting their homeland. The Nobel Prize Committee describes Roman Catholic co-winner John Hume, leader and one of the founders of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, as ‘‘the clearest and most consistent of Northern Ireland’s political leaders.’’ The prize’s other recipient, David Trimble,...