Heaney is a surname of Irish origin. People with the name include:
- Aidan Heaney, a retired English football player
- Charles Heaney, an American photographer and painter
- Craig Heaney, a British actor of screen, stage and radio
- Dermot Heaney, a former Irish Gaelic footballer
- Francis Heaney, the author of the humor collection Holy Tango of Literature
- Gerald William Heaney, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals
- Geraldine Heaney, an Irish-Canadian ice hockey head coach
- Harry Heaney, an Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry
- Mark Heaney, a drummer
- Neil Heaney, an English former footballer
- Sarah Heaney, a Scottish television presenter
- Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize
- Stewart Heaney, Canadian cricketer
- Thomas Heaney, an Australian rules footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word heaney:
“God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“It was a day of cold
Raw silence, wind-blown
Surplice and soutane:
Rained-on, flower-laden
Coffin after coffin
Seemed to float from the door”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)