It is a truism of Seamus Heaney criticism that the poet had a very strong sense of place, and particularly a very strong sense of home. In the presentation speech given before Heaney received his… Read the Article »On Heaney, home and homecoming
Kavanagh wrote an important essay in Studies in 1959. It gives an account of what he called his ‘hegira’, his re-birth on the banks of the Grand Canal, as he recovered from his cancer treatment. It was in… Read the Article »The re-birth of Patrick Kavanagh
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was one of the most important Irish poets of the late twentieth and twenty-first century. Her influence on a whole generation of women writers was immense, both through her own poetical craft… Read the Article »Eavan Boland on women poets in Ireland