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Remembering Seamus Heaney | Olivia O'Leary

Remembering Seamus Heaney | Olivia O'Leary

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Journalist and presenter Olivia O'Leary had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Seamus Heaney a number of times. In a conversation recorded at the Royal Irish Academy in 2012, they spoke about his poem Clearances #4 (from The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber), one of a sequence written in memory of the poet's mother.

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Journalist and presenter Olivia O'Leary had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Seamus Heaney a number of times. In a conversation recorded at the Royal Irish Academy in 2012, they spoke about his poem Clearances #4 (from The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber), one of a sequence written in memory of the poet's mother.

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