Word: mossbawn
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Such sensations were Heaney's birthright. The oldest of nine children, he was raised on Mossbawn, the family farm some 30 miles northwest of Belfast. A Protestant estate adjoined the Catholic Heaneys' land. "I was symbolically placed," he said later, "between the marks of English influence and the lure of the native experience, between 'the demesne' and 'the bog.' The demesne was walled, wooded, beyond our ken; the bog was rushy and treacherous, no place for children...
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