Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
I’ve always felt that Seamus Heaney would have preferred not to be the poet of the Troubles, Irishman for the World.
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I’ve always felt that Seamus Heaney would have preferred not to be the poet of the Troubles, Irishman for the World.
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While I loathe the frantic search for expensive gifts in shopping malls resounding with irritating music, and while I sigh with relief when the decorations are finally taken down and the last desiccated Christmas-tree needles are hoovered up, I do not agree with Ebeneezer Scrooge that “Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
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Perhaps to be human is to forget. Perhaps every culture survives by forgetting. In America we have forgotten so many things that we are sometimes called a people without a memory.
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