Bono has described the late Seamus Heaney as possessed of elegance, someone who was completely unaffected by the kind of creeping privilege he spoke out about in his work.
The rock star has spoken to Pat Kenny, on the first morning of his new Newstalk show, about the sense of loss he feels at Heaney's passing.
He said of Heaney that he could 'take a kitchen table and turn it into storming the Bastille'.
Bono also paid tribute to the underlying themes in Heaney's work, which he described as being about the 'compromises people make for love, and how important that is'.
The aid activist has also said he carries Heaney's work with him when he travels to the Developing World. He has said it gives him hope when he sees that even the toughest of people, 'despots' and finance ministers, can be undone by Seamus Heaney's words:
Books of Condolences have opened for the late Seamus Heaney in Dublin, Belfast and Derry ahead of his funeral this morning.
Mass for the Nobel laureate will take place at the Sacred heart Church in Donnybrook in Dublin this morning.
He'll be buried afterwards in his native Bellaghy in Co. Derry, at 5 O'clock this evening.
Mr Heaney, who died on Friday aged 74, is survived by his wife Marie and his three children.
