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Finders Keepers

Selected Prose 1971-2001

By: Seamus Heaney

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Finders Keepers

Selected Prose 1971-2001

By: Seamus Heaney

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession.

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468

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ISBN 10

1466864060

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9781466864061

The Redress of Poetry

By: Seamus Heaney

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The Redress of Poetry

By: Seamus Heaney

Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.

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234

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ISBN 10

1466855770

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9781466855779

The Little Book of Hurling

By: Seamus J. King

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The Little Book of Hurling

By: Seamus J. King

Ireland's love affair with Gaelic Games in general, and Hurling in particular, has never dimmed. Through the lean days of hunger and emigration, through the champagne-mojito-flavoured years of the Celtic Tiger and on after it slunk away with its tail between its legs, Ireland's love for 'our games' has endured. Fact-packed but light-hearted in style, this reliable reference book and a quirky guide reveals little-known facts, classic matches and amusing anecdotes, alongside a general history of the game. This is a book that can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about our ancient game.

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168

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The History Press

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ISBN 10

0752499343

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9780752499345

Stone Mad

By: Seamus Murphy

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Stone Mad

By: Seamus Murphy

First published in 1966, this acclaimed Irish classic is an account of time as an apprentice stonecarver by a craftsman who was one of Ireland’s most respected sculptors. The young Seamus Murphy, studying modelling at the Crawford School of Art in Cork in the 1920s, took the unusual step of apprenticing himself to a master stone carver to learn the ancient craft of the mason. ‘Stone Mad’ tells the story of his seven years of growing knowledge of the challenges and joys of stone – and of the men who worked it. His artistic feeling for quality responded to his workmates’ reverence for the ‘well made thing’. The result is a book of surpassing beauty, full of warmth, humour and profound perception.

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247

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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178841022X

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9781788410229

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

By: Seamus Heaney

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The Letters of Seamus Heaney

By: Seamus Heaney

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two. In this astute selection from Seamus Heaney’s vast correspondence, we are given direct access to the life and poetic development of a literary titan, from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the years of international eminence that kept him heroically busy until his death. Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this remarkable story in the poet’s own words. Generous, funny, exuberant, confiding, irreverent, empathetic, and deeply thoughtful, The Letters of Seamus Heaney encompasses decades-long relationships with friends and colleagues, as well as an unstinted responsiveness to passing acquaintances. Heaney’s mastery of language is as evident here as it is in any of his writings; listening to his voice we find ourselves in the same room as a man whose presence enriched the world and whose legacy deepens our sense of what truly matters.

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594

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374720061

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9780374720063

The Irish-American Experience

By: Seamus Cavan

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The Irish-American Experience

By: Seamus Cavan

Traces the history of Irish immigration to the United States, discussing why the Irish emigrated, their problems in a new land, and their contributions to American culture.

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1562942182

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9781562942182

Ireland

The Living Landscape

By: Peter Somerville-Large,Seamus Heaney

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Ireland

The Living Landscape

By: Peter Somerville-Large,Seamus Heaney

A critically acclaimed photographic and literary celebration of Ireland now in trade paperback. The book features 120 color photographs of the Irish landscape by Tom Kelly, "the David Muench of Ireland", and poetry by Seamus Heaney. Author Somerville-Large also wrote The Coast of West Cork and Irish Eccentrics.

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172

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1879373939

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9781879373938

The Redress of Poetry

By: Seamus Heaney

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The Redress of Poetry

By: Seamus Heaney

These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. Several twentieth-century poets are also discussed - W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and others - and the whole book constitutes a vivid proof of the claim that 'poetry is strong enough to help'.

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Faber & Faber

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0571265561

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9780571265565

Book's by Seamus Clare

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers

The Redress of Poetry

The Redress of Poetry

The Little Book of Hurling

The Little Book of Hurling

Stone Mad

Stone Mad

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The Irish-American Experience

The Irish-American Experience

Ireland

Ireland

The Redress of Poetry

The Redress of Poetry

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