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Thu 12 Dec 2009Activists are like poets, Heaney says in rights lecture
HUMAN RIGHTS workers and poets “with humanist sympathies” were concerned fundamentally with the same endeavour – to bring to light violations and injustices done to human beings by others, Seamus Heaney has said.
Delivering the Irish Human Rights Commission lecture last night, the Nobel laureate said the commission was “worthy of highest praise, especially at this moment when economic downturn weighs most cruelly upon the . . . underprivileged”.
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