Seamus Heaney
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Pulling with My Parents: It’s sweet to see people discussing Tinder filth with their folks
- Culture
- January 15, 2021, 05:00
When I was young, people didn’t really talk about sexual matters with their parents. The exactly three times my parents had sex in order to conceive m(...)

So Shoot Me – Frank McNally on the sentence-opener of the century (so far)
- Opinion
- January 13, 2021, 19:01
The habit certain people have of starting every sentence with the word “so” is now at least as old the century, I’m told. We should be well used to it(...)

‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’
- Work
- January 8, 2021, 05:01
This is the longest that Pauline Turley has been away from her New York workplace in a quarter of a century. The pandemic has theatre seats in the Iri(...)

2021’s truce, treaty and Northern Ireland commemorations will test our goodwill
- Heritage
- January 2, 2021, 06:00
It was a year in which one political entity was created, Northern Ireland, and another, the Irish Free State, was negotiated into being. It was also (...)

Róisín Ingle: 20 things I would put in a time capsule from 2020
- People
- December 30, 2020, 05:00
We won’t have any trouble remembering this year; in fact we’ll probably be reminiscing and boring much younger people about it for the rest of our liv(...)

Passing the baton – how Parnell’s walking stick became a literary totem
- Opinion
- December 29, 2020, 19:30
A walking stick cut by Charles Stewart Parnell some 130 years ago is now used as a literary baton. For decades, it has been proudly passed from one ge(...)

One for the archives – An Irishwoman’s Diary on literary records
- Opinion
- December 27, 2020, 17:01
My friend the writer Philip Casey once organised his archive for deposit at the National Library of Ireland. For years, he’d kept everything, a chrono(...)

‘My passport’s green’: why was Seamus Heaney used in Northern Ireland branding?
- Irish News
- December 19, 2020, 02:04
It is tempting to wonder what Seamus Heaney would have made of the controversy over the use of his portrait to promote the centenary of Northern Irela(...)

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I’ve storted a rumour Matt Damon wants to build a house on Coliemore road’
- People
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
“I’ve been avoiding calling you!” the old man goes. “Feared that you and I would get sucked into another one of our famous political contretemps vis-a(...)