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Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC.

He finished his farewell remarks by quoting from the Seamus Heaney poem The Cure at Troy and said: “Once in a lifetime, the longed-for tidal wave of justice will rise up and hope and history ...