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...Field Day is one of the few cultural contexts in which a reference to “Seamus” generally means Deane, not Heaney. “Well of course, Heaney was incredibly important....
...Unlike his contemporary Seamus Heaney, Mahon’s verse never appeared in any of Bill Clinton’s presidential speeches....
...Brian Friel’s plays never sparked a riot. The Irish dramatist, who died on October 2 at the age of 86, was too subtle a writer for that. His aim was exploration, not confrontation....
...But this is not enough, says Brian Lucey, a professor of finance at Trinity College, Dublin, and an expert on the economics of gold....
...Londonderry, which is known as Derry to nationalists, boasts a rich cultural tradition that includes poet Seamus Heaney, playwright Brian Friel and musician Phil Coulter....
...From Louis MacNeice to Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, the province has produced more than its share of rhymers. 3. Stroke city. Derry/Londonderry will next year be the first UK City of Culture. 4....
...“Straws do break camels’ backs,” says Brian Mairs of the British Bankers’ Association. “But what is more likely is that specific parts of banks’ business would shift elsewhere....
...With writers such as Brian Friel, Colm Tóibín, Seamus Heaney, John Banville and Anne Enright, there is no recession in Irish culture....
...Brian Merriman’s 18th-century bawdy epic, “The Midnight Court”, is uncut, but daringly mixes the various translations by Frank O’Connor, Heaney, Muldoon, Ciaran Carson and Thomas Kinsella....
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...I was one of the business directors, with Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane and the filmmaker and traditional singer David Hammond, and Stephen Rea and Brian Friel....
...Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland’s political editor, suggests in his blog a more honest version for politicians in the current climate: “We’ll take what you’ve got.” brian.groom@ft.com...
...Its quadrangles and libraries are steeped in tradition, having played host to nine Nobel laureates, including the poet Seamus Heaney and the physicist Erwin Schrödinger....
...Each of the festivals is eager to stress the variety of its offerings, and Cheltenham is no exception: “For every reading by Seamus Heaney, there’s a debate about graffiti art....
...The GM Young lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford, since 1994, the 58-year-old has, as part of an extraordinary generation of Northern Irish poets that includes Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon,...
...POETRY Harry Eyres DISTRICT AND CIRCLE by Seamus Heaney Faber ₤12.99, 96 pages In this latest collection Heaney goes over old ground (poems about anvils and turnip-snedders), and also, as in the title...
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