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Seamus Heaney, Poet
Lawrence Pollard talks to the Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney about writing amid the 30 years of political violence in his native Northern Ireland
Seamus Heaney grew up as part of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland but was always cautious about taking sides in his poetry. Now aged 70, he tells Lawrence Pollard how difficult it was to negotiate a path. He describes how ideas for poems can come to him at any moment and how he always returns in his thoughts to the farmhouse of his childhood called Mossbawn.
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