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  • proper noun A male given name of Irish origin. English equivalent: James.

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Examples

  • This tendency to outgrow the balances and ironies of the earlier phases is very visible in Seamus Heaney's latest collection to date, District and Circle (2006).

    This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 2007

  • I'd been hearing the name Seamus Doyle for years around Southie.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Gilsenan Nordin, Irene, Crediting Marvels in Seamus Heaney's Seeing

    Seamus Heaney - Bibliography 1995

  • Seamus is down on the ground, hands over his head – Christ, and he wasn’t even wearing his helmet – and he doesn’t even fookin remember diving down there, but he’s sure as fook happy to be there and he’ll just stay right where he is for the time be, thank you very much, ma’am, and …

    Archive 2005-02-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Seamus is down on the ground, hands over his head – Christ, and he wasn’t even wearing his helmet – and he doesn’t even fookin remember diving down there, but he’s sure as fook happy to be there and he’ll just stay right where he is for the time be, thank you very much, ma’am, and …

    What Is Style? Hal Duncan 2005

  • Seamus is down on the ground, hands over his head – Christ, and he wasn’t even wearing his helmet – and he doesn’t even fookin remember diving down there, but he’s sure as fook happy to be there and he’ll just stay right where he is for the time be, thank you very much, ma’am, and …

    Archive 1999-01-01 Hal Duncan 1999

  • Seamus is down on the ground, hands over his head – Christ, and he wasn’t even wearing his helmet – and he doesn’t even fookin remember diving down there, but he’s sure as fook happy to be there and he’ll just stay right where he is for the time be, thank you very much, ma’am, and …

    Scraps Of Vellum Hal Duncan 1999

  • Several times he tried to fulfill his word to Seamus and find Megan, but the city was a madhouse and finding one girl was well nigh impossible.

    Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000

  • I'll take the Romneys at their word that Seamus loved his alfresco rides.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2012

  • I'll take the Romneys at their word that Seamus loved his alfresco rides.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2012

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