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Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 4 months ago

I thought this poem was particularl interesting,because it again dealt with the issue of what the role of a poet is. Should he be actively involved in the political ordeals and the violence that Northern Ireland […]
Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 4 months ago

Gusty Spence seems to me to be the first person who actually got that there is no such thing as the ‘essential Ireland’ as Heaney alludes to in his poem “Stations of the West” when he says “I had come west to […]
Vera Dokter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 5 months ago

When talking about “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz” today, we identified the gazebo at the end of the poem as a reference to man-made aspects of life such as Time and Death itself. This would of […]