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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Seamus Heaney

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
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
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
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 don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
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 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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Generation Important Myself University Win
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
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
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.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System
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

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