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September 11, 2013
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Posted by Nick Hennegan. Posted In : Writers
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Posted by Nick Hennegan. Posted In : Writers
Seamus Heaney died yesterday. It's a loss in so many ways. Probably the finest Irish poet since Yeats, he was sometimes known as "Famous Seamus" because unlike many poets and writers, he wasn't particularly shy and retiring. He was something of a celebrity from an early age and was prepared to stick his head over the parapet to make a comment.
But I identify with Heaney the farm-boy. My folks are from the peat-bogs of Co. Mayo - he was from a Mossbawn farmhouse in County Derry, although he res...
Posted by Simon Plant. Posted In : Nick Hennegan
Posted by Nick Hennegan. Posted In : Nick Hennegan
Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas | |
![]() £ 15Friday 8th November 2013 at 7.30pm Saturday 9th November, 2013 at 2.30pm The Wheatsheaf Pub, Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1JB
A rare, fund-raising performance of the "play for voices' given on the very day Dylan died sixty years ago. The Maverick Theatre Company and the Literary Pub Crawl Company present this stunning vocal masterpiece in the same pub where Dylan Thomas drank and met his wife, Caitlan.
A unique, not-to-be-missed event celebrating the genius o... |
Posted by Simon Plant. Posted In : Nick Hennegan
Posted by Simon Plant. Posted In : Nick Hennegan
Nick Hennegan |
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