More speaking volumes
My dashing around continues today. I'm off now to visit the poet Medbh McGuckian at her home in north Belfast -- and to see the books she lives with. I've been reading Medbh's poetry since I was a teenager, and was a member of the writing circle she ran when she was writer in residence at Queen's University. I'm expecting her walls to be lined with a sizeable library of Irish poetry. But then I expected Noel Thompson to have a massive collection of books about Irish politics when I visited his home yesterday, only to find that he doesn't enjoy reading books about Irish politics (since, as a political journalist, he's living the story) and that he likes to read novels in French.
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Being educated at Dunlambert I hated books and reading and would go out of my way to avoid such activity which was generally a common practice amongst my working class, class group at school until I met a rare breed of English teacher in my last year at school I wish I had have met him in my first year at school who’s class was totally different from all other English teachers it was better than the school library all financed by himself, he took me under his wing and under his guidance instilled a passion for reading that has stayed with me ever since which I have instilled into my daugher who at present is studying for her GCSE'S at B.R.A. at present I am reading Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil who is a far cry from George Best by Michael Parkinson the first book that I ever did read.
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