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...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...It was dedicated by James Joyce to Michael Healy, Nora [Joyce’s wife]’s uncle, and none of us had spotted it. It was worth about £3,500....
...Simon Heaney, analyst at Drewry, a maritime consultancy, is pessimistic that we will see a dramatic change this year....
...Growing up, my siblings and I knew that we were welcome to help ourselves to our father’s books, from Milan Kundera to Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie to Virginia Woolf, Seamus Heaney to the Bhagavad Gita...
...Rory Stewart WRITER AND FORMER CABINET MINISTER James Rebanks sketches through his family farm the evolution (and near destruction) of British agriculture in English Pastoral: An Inheritance....
...In Los Angeles, he quoted the Irish poet Seamus Heaney: “History says don’t hope on this side of the grave, but then once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history...
...She had come to receive the David Cohen prize, whose biennial recipients have included Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney and most recently Tom Stoppard. She cut quite a dash....
...James Hogg, author of the classic novel of twisted religion The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, asked John Murray II to find him a wife; Byron asked him to collect from the London...
...It was as “Sacha” that the duchess formed a working relationship as a sponsor of the arts with Seamus Heaney, the late Nobel laureate, who was born in west Ulster into a modest Catholic family of small farmers...
...But the last shade, James Joyce, is bracing as well as brutal and tells the poet to get on with it, get back in harness, write for the joy of it....
...“Like Heaney, Friel wrote not so much about where we are but about we came from. He was one of the last of the great humanist playwrights.”...
...Aeneid Book VI, by Seamus Heaney, Faber, RRP£14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$23 How fitting that the final published poem by Seamus Heaney, arriving three years after his death in 2013, should be a...
...Aeneid Book VI, by Seamus Heaney, Faber, RRP£14.99 / FSG, RRP$25 (May) A new translation of Virgil’s epic by the late Nobel Prize-winning poet....
...Lately, I have been rereading Seamus Heaney....
...● Pioneer Investments has hired Dean Heaney as institutional sales director from Royal London Asset Management....
...In an internal memo announcing the changes, Michael Heaney and Robert Rooney, who were appointed co-heads of fixed income last year, said there would be “an intense focus on return on equity”....
...written by James Harpur and starring a youthful Stephen Fry, which brought the story of the Oresteia into a contemporary college setting....
...But for the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, Herbert’s work typified the qualities of “accuracy, spontaneity, mystery” that she most valued in poetry; Seamus Heaney and James Fenton are two of the contemporary...
...Clive Adams, Territorial Commander, Salvation Army, UK and ROI Revd Joel Edwards, Director, Micah Challenge International Rt Revd Mar Theodosius, Diocesan Epicsopa, Mar Thoma Church (UK) Rev Michael Heaney...
...Sir, To find English “in its natural home”, all the evidence (James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W.B....
...Another candidate (who had obviously only ever listened to lectures) wrote a whole essay about “James Coetzee”. James Coetzee – what total and pristine ignorance!...
...In June, James Montier of GMO published an excellent critique of tail-risk protection, An ode to the joy of cash, in which he argued that cash is the oldest, easiest, and most underrated source of protection...
...Clive James is author of ‘The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V’ (Picador)...
...The letter, signed by Luke Chappell and James Macpherson, two of BlackRock’s top UK executives, suggests banks are providing companies with unrealistically high valuations in order to win their business...
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