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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Seamus Heaney

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally

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