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Imagine a library without the works of James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Sean O'Casey, John Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, George Bernard Shaw, Brendan Behan, Frank O'Connor, William Butler Yeats and Christy Brown...
...again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...
...Seamus Heaney...
...have often passed Seamus Heaney making his way up the incline of Plympton St. towards the Yard and wondered what he was doing in Cambridge. The broadbacked poet looks as though he should be among the gnarled stiles of an Irish hillside, not the parking meters of a street in Harvard Square...
...cops, Seamus Duffy was a rioter who got what he was asking for. To his parents, he was an innocent bystander, gunned down by the heartless enemy. To the English public, he was all but invisible. The Sunday Times of London issued a happy postmortem on the anniversary, calling it "one of the most peaceful fortnights in the present troubles . . . only one British soldier was killed, as a result of an accidental discharge...