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Tag Archives: Belfast
Happy Birthday, Paul Muldoon
“This work [Paul Muldoon’s book ‘The Annals of Chile’] gives the impression of coming clean and being clandestine at one and the same time. It is Joycean in its combination of the everyday and the erudite, but it is also … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Ireland, Irish poetry, Paul Muldoon, poetry
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Belfast,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. My father … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, Irish poetry, politics, Seamus Heaney, war
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28 Pages Long
The scene is 28 pages long and involves two characters having a conversation, a long conversation: Bobby Sands, Irish prisoner about to go on hunger strike, and Father Dominic Moran, the priest who comes to visit Sands in prison. Bobby … Continue reading
The Books: Wintering Out, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Seamus Heaney’s third volume of poetry, published in 1972 Wintering Out. In Wintering Out he brings politics into his verse directly. Politics had been latent, he claims, before, … Continue reading
Belfast: Directions from Carrie
“Take a right when you see the chicks with the guns.” What on earth could she be talking about? Oh. THOSE chicks with the guns.
A tour of my bulletin board
Face I will never forget. 1996 peace protest, Belfast.
Welcome To Belfast
We did the whole mural tour with Carrie. I mean, you just gotta. Our tour guide said stuff like, “And over der is da pub where me girlfriend’s da got his leg blown off …” This one is actually not … Continue reading
The Books: “A Secret History of the IRA” (Ed Moloney)
History bookshelf: Next book on the shelf is A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney. If I recall correctly, Emily got so angry reading this book that she threw it across the room! Good times!! Ed Moloney has … Continue reading
Ireland Photographs
I got my pictures back, and frankly it looks like I sent my camera on the trip, and I wasn’t there at all. I only have one picture of Allison, walking up the stone steps at the Cliffs of Moher, … Continue reading
Directions in Belfast
So I called Carrie from Dublin to set up when we would arrive in Belfast, and all that. We were going to take a taxi from the station in Belfast to her house, and she gave me a couple of … Continue reading Continue reading