![President receives family of the late Seamus Deane](/images/made/44d1dc18a2367c64/NO_FEE_ARAS_SEAMUS_DEANE_BOOK_MX-3_720_501.jpg)
President Higgins welcomed the family of the late Seamus Deane to Áras an Uachtaráin.
Deane’s partner Emer and son Ciarán presented the President with a copy of his book "Small World Ireland 1798-2018".
Last month, President Higgins paid tribute to Seamus Deane, saying Ireland had lost a 'foremost critic, novelist and academic' and Derry lost an 'incomparable' son in Seamus Deane.
You can read the President’s statement here, or listen to it here.
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