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Tread Softly... Irish Poets in the UK - Softcover

Patricia McCarthy

 
9781908527424: Tread Softly... Irish Poets in the UK

Synopsis

Tread Softly... draws together not just the Irish and English, but also groups within these two general groups such as Irish poets brought up in Ireland but who come to reside in the UK, poets brought up here but whose parents were migrants of one sort or another. And then, of course, there is the great band of Northern Irish poets who are differently Irish in the UK, since Northern Ireland remains part of the UK. Here there are two splinter poets (such as Heaney, Montague) brought up in the Catholic religion, and those linked to the Protestant ascendancy such as Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley English by birth but brought up and a long-time resident in the North of Ireland - all of whom, of course, transcend the limits of their tribe.

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