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This paper looks into the reconciliation-oriented inclination of the literature of Seamus Heaney, who has contributed to building and expanding the Irish identity in the modern Irish history: during the first period of his works, Heaney tries to make the Irish culture de-anglicized. He starts his career as an informer of the suppressed and dispossessed Catholic minority of Northern Ireland. However, going through the Ulster Trouble, he begins to look for the root of the Irish troubles as such and comes to find that it is partly due to the fanatical Catholic nationalism. Since North, his fourth poetry collection, Heaney suggests that the Gaelic Catholic are not the whole or only Irish. His poetry shows also the importance of tolerance based upon the Irish's recognition of their ethnicity and culture as being hybrid. Just like an archaeologist, he digs out the root of Ireland and concludes that it comes from Northern Europe. He requires the Republic of Ireland to be reborn as the Republic of Conscience. It follows from the above that his poetry searches for the reconciliation between the different ethnicities and religions: his poetry is questing for 'uisneach'. In my humble opinion, Heaney tells us that the best possible way to get out of the trauma is not to emphasize one color but to tolerate and accept various colors.