“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.” IfsWayShouldMeanSelfCountryHomeRememberPoliticalOpportunityLanguageUnderstandingCuttingMissingEssentialsElementsDiversityRegardOneselfMutualDesirableImaginativeAttainmentRealisationBetter FutureCultural DiversitySelf UnderstandingEnhancementMutual Understanding Author:Seamus Heaney
“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.” HomeAttitudeFiguresHabitAuthorityIrelandAvoidanceFigure SkatingAuthority Figures Author:Seamus Heaney
“Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.” WritingDoneHomeWonderfulConditionsHarvard Author:Seamus Heaney
“Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.” FirstsMadeUseHomeSpiritHouseStudySeeingMetsLibraryIncludingCirclesFacultyBobFrankGuardianHarvardHelenDublinCircle Of FriendsEngels Author:Seamus Heaney
