Time to Put On Your Bikini for Seamus Heaney ; the Londoner's Diary

Evening Standard - London › April 14, 2009

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SEAMUS Heaney, who turned 70 yesterday, astonished well wishers at his birthday celebrations by revealing that his name has now entered Cockney rhyming slang -- as slang for "bikini".

"Famous Seamus", as he is known to friends, professed himself delighted by the news that he is now so famous with Cockney Londoners at a birthday party hosted by his publishers, Faber & Faber.

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Time to Put On Your Bikini for Seamus Heaney ; the Londoner's Diary

To date, Heaney has won the Nobel Prize for literature, t...

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