So I wept for want of a lost love, as all sons their mothers. Continue reading
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Pictures that speak eloquently of Seamus Heaney
The Guardian published a series of photos of Seamus Heaney on the occasion of his death. They tell much about the man.
Remembering Seamus Heaney
Mickey. Make the silence speak before you ever open your mouth. In other words never speak to a class or make presentation until you have their complete and undivided attention. Continue reading
On Hearing of the Death of Seamus Heaney
Do you agree that when poetry and music meet and match, the magic of the senses release the greatest of satisfactions? Continue reading
A Citizen of the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney and Northern Ireland
For hard-line Republicans, Heaney has always been far too reluctant to take sides; for moderate nationalists, his efforts to locate the violence in the North within historically-based atrocities was seen as a compromise of his creative principles; whilst for many hard-line unionists, Heaney is, without qualification, a Catholic/nationalist and, thus, political writer, whose loyalties are already fixed to one side of the conflict. Continue reading
On first teaching Heaney
Another in Tinteán’s ongoing series of tributes to Seamus Heaney, arguing that Heaney’s rapid canonisation was due to his attractive subjects and themes, and to his poems’ suitability for contemporary criticism. Continue reading
Seamus Heaney – Translator
The threat of sudden and violent death from those operating outside the expectations of civilised life is a resonant one for so many other places in our world, not least in Ireland. Continue reading
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