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How Say Nothing’s Characters Compare to Their Real Life Counterparts

New York Magazine 17 Nov 2024
There’s a purposeful and potent disconnect between the command of the series’ title — drawn from Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing” — and its characters’ need to talk about both ...
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The Yellow Bittern, London: ‘Leaves you muttering about school dinners’ – restaurant review

AOL 17 Nov 2024
Wines from £40. Chefs gather in tribes ... Here are works by Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett just as, upstairs, in the sparse, yellow-walled dining room, which seats only 18, there hangs a photograph of Brendan Behan, alongside a portrait of Lenin ... .
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A Benedict Kiely Reader: Drink to the Bird and Selected Essays review - Words on the importance of place

The Irish Times 16 Nov 2024
Here one stands too amid the landscapes that Seamus Heaney made his own – and today, of course, one cannot but be aware of both lough and river as near-sterile bodies of water, the local environment poisoned almost to death by intensive agriculture.
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Devastating screen portrait that challenges the image Gerry Adams portrays to the world: His...

The Daily Mail 16 Nov 2024
Their victims were innocent passers-by ... Keefe took the title for his account from Seamus Heaney's poem about the Troubles, Whatever You Say, Say Nothing and it refers directly to the silence that still surrounds the McConville killing.Read More ... .
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Sandymount castle home with library of dreams for €3.95m

The Irish Times 14 Nov 2024
Address. €3,950,000. Agent. Sherry FitzGerald. View this property on MyHome.ie ... On the busy green in Sandymount village, there are busts of both WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney ... READ MORE ... .
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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Take the Day Off

The Star - Shelby 13 Nov 2024
Constructor ... Editor ... Martin's 2018 book Fire & Blood.SEAMUS (47A. Nobel-winning poet Heaney) SEAMUS Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator ... SEAMUS Heaney's debut collection of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, was published in 1966.
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True journalism seen as threats by those in power

MENA FN 12 Nov 2024
(MENAFN) True journalism, as Seamus Heaney eloquently put it, is about speaking the truth. Journalists who seek to uncover the mechanisms of power, expose cruelty, lies, and the criminality of the ... .
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National Library acquires poet Paul Durcan's archive

RTE 11 Nov 2024
L-R ... She said ... It represents his life's work.". From the archives ... The library said that the archive shows Mr Durcan as a prolific letter-writer, and includes correspondence with fellow writers, including Seamus Heaney, Brian Frien and John McGahern ... .
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‘Fascism comes not with goose-steps but dance moves’: European writers react to Trump’s win

The Observer 10 Nov 2024
Ece Temelkuran. ‘Some, who you assume to be your people, will normalise Trump’. Dear American friend, ... That is what defeat the second time around does ... That is why I am writing directly to you ... Seamus Heaney may not be quoted quite so often, let us say ... .
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Vona Groarke wins 2024 Michel Déon Prize

The Irish Times 08 Nov 2024
It is organised by English PEN, together with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney ... Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, in partnership with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s.
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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

Press Telegram 07 Nov 2024
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Nov. 3 ... IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org. HARDCOVER FICTION. 1. Intermezzo ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... Searching inside ‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ for the poet (and myself).
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Lynch: Rory McIlroy should have answered the Donald Trump question with a shrug. But he didn’t

Golf Week 07 Nov 2024
The first Wednesday of November during leap years is a perilous time for public commentary as U.S ... This one is no different ... In this instance, on this day, he ought to have taken a lead from his late compatriot, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.
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Elizabeth Ai’s 6-year odyssey to document ’80s-era Vietnamese American new wave

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 06 Nov 2024
In 2018, Elizabeth Ai was pregnant with her daughter and on the verge of another profound change ...New Wave ... “When I was pregnant with her, I was like ... SEE ALSO ... (Photo credit ... Searching inside ‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ for the poet (and myself) ... .
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Seamus Heaney's alma mater draws from the past to inspire today’s writers and poets

Irish Central 05 Nov 2024
The influence of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney may be felt around the world but his fame is rooted in his starting point, Queen’s University Belfast ... .

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