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Mise Éire – I am Ireland- Sono l’Irlanda
MISE ÉIRE – Pádraig Pearse Mise Éire Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra. Mór mo ghlóir: Mé a rug Cúchulainn…
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A sense of place
Nicholas Wroe – Saturday July 22, 2006 – The Guardian A life in poetry Derek Mahon’s work is often linked…
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The wishing tree
Kathleen Jamie I stand neither in the wilderness not fairyland, but in the fold of a green hill, the tilt…
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Baader Meinhof
Arthur Schopenauer Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
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Irish Poetry
Michael Longley Impasto or washes as a rule: Tuberous clottings, a muddy Accumulation, internal rhyme – Fuchsias droop towards the…
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Desert Warfare
Michael Longley Though there are distances between us I lean across and with my finger Pick sleep from the corners…
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Edna Longley: Poetry and the Peace Process
From “Books and Writings”, ABC Radio National by Ramona Koval, Sunday 24/07/2005 Summary: After many lifetimes of conflict and intransigence…
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What are our poets writing about?
The Guardian, Wednesday October 5, 2005 Nature, war – or washing up? As Britain’s top poetry prize is awarded today,…
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Ireland Unarmed
PH Pearse Ireland unarmed will attain just as much freedom as it is convenient for England to give her; Ireland…
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The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the…
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Innocence
Patrick Kavanagh They laughed at one I loved- The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That…
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