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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
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
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
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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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing

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