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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

Seamus Heaney

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
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
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
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul

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