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...haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found that the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy.'' This great work of 1759 satire might have been fiction, but current news items reveal the same facts in today's wars. HARRIETT J. CLAXTON, Dublin, Georgia...
Heaney, whose selections included "Stiff Tree" and "An Artist," ended his reading with "Poet's Chair," a meditation on a sculpture in Dublin by that title...
...native of Dublin, Ireland, he has run competitively since 1983, in addition to playing rugby, golf, and tennis until his senior year of high school...
This long, archaeological perspective has drawn some criticism over the years from Catholic partisans in the struggle over Northern Ireland, who felt that Heaney was insufficiently engaged in the tumultuous here and now. His move to Dublin, capital of the Irish Republic, in 1972 also proved controversial. But Heaney has written quite movingly about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away...
...main subject of Heaney's poetry is the religious strife in Northern Ireland. The poet resides in Dublin, usually spending one semester each year teaching at Harvard...