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Sep 14, 2015 · As I know from his case, when writers are confronted with the probability of death they can come up with a memorable valediction. In his instance it was two words in Latin, Noli timere, which translate as “Don’t be afraid”. A last week.
Sep 3, 2013 · Seamus Heaney sent his final words as a text message in Latin to his wife, Marie: "Noli timere", which means "Do not be afraid".
Feb 26, 2019 · Shortly before he died five years ago, the Nobel prize-winning Irish poet, playwright, and translator Seamus Heaney sent a last text message to his wife. “ Noli timere, ” it ended. “ Be not ...
- “Noli Timere.” – Seamus Heaney
- “Don’t Die Like I did.” – George Best
- "Forgive them. Bury Me in Glasnevin with The Boys.” – Michael Collins
- Pádraig Pearse
- "I Suppose It Had to Come to this. Such Is Life” – Ned Kelly
- William Butler Yeats
- “Either This Wallpaper Goes, Or I Do!" – Oscar Wilde
- “I’m Bad, I’m Nineteen” – Phil Lynott
- “What Should I Wish to Live For” – Theobald Wolfe Tone
- “If This Is Death, Then I Am Ready For It” – Liam (Billy) Whelan
This beautiful Latin phrase means “Be not afraid.” This was the text of the last message the poet sent to his wife and children as he was rushed to the operating theater.
The Belfast-born football legend’s very last words have been disputed, but it is said he requested that a photograph of himself on his deathbed to be in the News of the World newspaper as a message to the public about the dangers of alcoholism.
Ireland’s revolutionary hero is famed for his way with words especially his last, uttered while he continued to fight, despite suffering a fatal wound.
Collins’ Easter Rising comrade was reported to have not spoken, but whistled, as he walkedfrom his cell to the execution yard in Kilmainham Gaol.
The famous Irish bush ranger committed his legacy to Australian folklore with these supposed last words before his 1880 hanging in Melbourne Gaol.
His last words were said to be, “If I die, bury me up there [in the churchyard at Roquebrune], and then in a year’s time, when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” W.B. Yeats was indeed buried in Roquebrune, but the legendary Irish poet’s dying wish came true when, in 1948, his remains were placed “Under bare Ben Bulb...
The acclaimed playwright’s flamboyant style in life was matched by the phrase that has lived on as his most famous final statement.
Dying tragically young in 1986 at the age of 46, the Thin Lizzy vocalist’s final words that many of his fans would have heard are sadly poignant.
The Father of Irish Republicanism’s retortwas allegedly a response to threats by his captors to re-open his throat wound if he spoke, when he was already due to be hanged for treason.
A reference to his strong Catholic faith, the tragic young Manchester United prodigy from Dublin was said to have spoken his final words as the team’s ill-fated aircraft thundered down the slush-filled runway at Munich’s Reim Airport for the third time. Whelan died in the Munich Air Disaster aged just 22.
- Laura Fulton
Sep 3, 2013 · Nolite timere. Usually, because of the gallows humour effect, last words teeter a step away from plummeting from the sublime to the gorblimey. “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the ...
Dec 18, 2013 · Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and playwright, passed away in Dublin on 30 August, 2013, after a short illness. His last words, sent by text message to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died, were Noli timere (Latin for Do not be afraid).
This voice has bilateral functions; it both distinguishes the poet from average men in terms of his gift and provides a distinct position, within literary tradition, among other poets. The said uniqueness has been felt in all his oeuvre with the same incandescence since his early poems.
