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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

~Seamus Heaney

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There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

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I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

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I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

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The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.

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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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