Nobel omissions

You ran a fascinating interview with Seamus Heaney (13 March). However, you described him as "the first Irish Nobel Prizewinner since Yeats", but forgot about George Bernard Shaw (1925) and Samuel Beckett (1969), and that's just literature; there have been several other Irish Nobel Prizewinners since 1923 for science and peace.

By The Newsroom

Published 15th Mar 2010, 20:15 BST