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Letter from New England
A new play performed by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, features a superb portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.
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Miracles in the Cornfield
Steve Logan writes of his slight acquaintance with Seamus Heaney and his influence on him as a university teacher.
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Take My Advice
Democracy and debate are all very well - in their place. But sometimes we should surely just listen to the advice of people who know more about these things than we do.
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The Boys in the Band
Some people thought the guys in the group, and particularly the drummer, had no rights at all and should play what, and wherever, and for as long as they were told. But Joseph Haydn rapped his bow and stood up to them.
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In Kafka’s Deathhouse
Franz Kafka died in an Austrian sanatorium from an incurable illness, aged forty, in 1924. Nothing could be done for him. There were some far more questionable deaths just up the road from there almost twenty years later.
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It’s No Go The Poetry Show
One of Ireland's greatest poets died fifty years ago today. So let's make a bit of space for that too.
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Letter from Gulladuff
South Derry farming folk, sending their children away to board in Derry city, were assured that at least they'd get a good dinner. They didn't.
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The Harvest is in
Barra O Seaghdha considers just how easy it might have been at several steps along his ascending career path for Seamus Heaney to turn away from the past.
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Sweet sounds together
Let us not forget Seamus Heaney's wonderful gifts as a prose writer.
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Rita Thalmann 1926-2013
Rita Thalmann, an historian born in Nuremberg who taught and published in France, was one of the last historians of Nazism to have personal experience of it in the disasters it brought on her family.
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I’m a plain man. Well, a bigot actually
Yorkshire folk have a strong reputation for telling it like it is, which leaves them free to tell it like it isn't.
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The Other Side of the Story
It is perhaps the greatest of understatements to say that Ulster loyalism gets a bad press. But some people are working to help foster an articulacy in the community that might end up being beneficial to everyone.
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