Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spartan rooms at Harvard's Adams House, the poet can be persuaded to summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet...
...storage room was thoroughly ransacked after graduation from Queens University in Belfast, where he was a scholarship student. Teaching in a Northern Irish secondary school, writing at night and on weekends, Heaney published two volumes of poetry, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark. But it was not until 1972 that he reversed the procedure, choosing poetry as his main work and lecturing as a sideline. He also chose to move south, to County Wicklow, a suburb of Dublin, with his wife Marie and their three children. "I felt that by throwing up my job and moving...
...invented the title character of "Jimmy's World," a portrait of an eight-year-old heroin addict. A month later, New York Daily News Columnist Michael Daly admitted that he had made up the name of a British soldier who, he reported, had shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition of the truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York...
...days. Many of those were merely sacrificial pawns, analysts believe, willing to be recaptured to cover the escape of some of the I.R.A.'s most notorious terrorists. Among those still at large: Brendan McFarlane, 31 Jailed for life for a bombing attack that killed five civilians in a Belfast bar; Kevin Artt, 24, jailed in August for the 1978 murder of Albert Miles, a deputy governor of Maze Prison; and six others with life sentences for murders. The dragnet's major find was Hugh Corey, 27, who was serving a life sentence for murder. Corey and Patrick Mclntyre...
...stories. Generally, what is amusing in the author's England can turn ugly in Ireland (both north and south), where bitter years and an unfinished present conspire to drive people mad. The elderly schoolteacher in Attracta cannot help sharing with her pupils the goriest details of the latest Belfast atrocity: I.R.A. terrorists mailed the head of a British officer to his wife, who joined the Women's Peace Movement and was later raped by the men who had killed her husband. The children in the class are more confused than appalled; the teacher's superior politely suggests...