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...And Heaney’s very light, a beautiful personality.” He laughs. “Tom’s got a light side to him. I haven’t seen him for a while.”...
...The earliest recording here is of Joe Heaney, a Connemara sean-nós singer who died in 1984, singing “Oro, Se Do Bheatha ‘Bhaile”....
...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....
...from the slush pile after a publisher’s reader had assessed it as “absurd and uninteresting”; and he was to make approaches to Philip Larkin, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Thom Gunn, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney...
...It features notably in the work of the late Séamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate poet, for whom it provided a link to the country’s deep past. “We have no prairies,” he wrote in “Bogland” (1969)....
...This year saw the death of the great Irish playwright Tom Murphy, whose work encapsulated this image of Ireland....
...Nicolson references Heaney and Yeats, Melville and Milton, but his own writing sparkles too, with beautiful accompanying illustrations by artist Kate Boxer....
...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...
...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”....
...Seamus Heaney’s poem “Punishment” describes a similarly “exact/ and tribal, intimate revenge”....
...From male voice choirs to Shirley Bassey, Katherine Jenkins and Tom Jones, golden larynges are the nation’s glory. 2. Rugby union....
...modernist Thomas McGreevy; and among the contemporary section, I could have done with less of the relentlessly charming and prolix Paul Durcan, if it allowed for the inclusion of Paula Meehan and more from Tom...
...Poetry Human Chain, Seamus Heaney, Faber RRP£12.99 Heaney’s eye and ear for the past, personal and national, again show superlative warmth and depth; from Irish history to childhood vignettes and beautifully...
...Its latest adaptor, Tom Paulin, is giving me the pale blue stare made famous to British audiences on the BBC’s Late Review....
...On Thursday, when the London Review of Books – “the most extraordinary journal of its time” (Tom Paulin), “the house magazine of the intellectual elite” (Clive James), and “the largest literary magazine...
...Paulin’s analyses of poems by contemporaries such as Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney are, in general, stronger than those on passages from poets of earlier centuries....
...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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