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...reading is just one stop on Montague's three-week tour of Ireland and the United States...
...Montague is] certainly one of the leading poets writing in English in Ireland today, and furthermore one whose reputation has survived over a long number of years" Patrick Ford, head of the department of Celtic languages and literatures, said...
...Ireland settled into the Adams House Senior Common Room yesterday as 30 people listened to Irish poet John Montague read 10 poems from his latest book, John Montague: Collected Poems...
...Academy likes to invest some geopolitical significance in its literature awards, and the current peace talks in Northern Ireland seem to have influenced this year's decision. Among the reasons cited for choosing Heaney: "As an Irish Catholic, he has concerned himself with analysis of violence in Northern Ireland--with the express reservation that he wants to avoid the conventional terms...
This long, archaeological perspective has drawn some criticism over the years from Catholic partisans in the struggle over Northern Ireland, who felt that Heaney was insufficiently engaged in the tumultuous here and now. His move to Dublin, capital of the Irish Republic, in 1972 also proved controversial. But Heaney has written quite movingly about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away...