Resurrection in barley
An astonishing image used by Seamus Heaney in his 'Requiem for the Croppies', as he explains here regarding the poem...
Liver-thick mud
A touching recollection by Seamus Heaney of a moment decades before which wedded him to a particular landscape. I like...
A circular accent
Seamus Heaney describes a circle to convey the sounds of the Ulster accent, drawing an image of tangential consonants and...
Rowing about on a voyage of discovery
The lovely word ‘imram’ is, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, old Irish for ‘rowing about’ or ‘voyaging’. In its plural...
Frank impiety
An incisive summary of the effect of Irish writers on English literature; I liked the English-rose-pruning metaphor and the 'frank...
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