Seamus Heaney Quotes About Ireland

Quotes about: Ireland

• At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

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  Attitude, Home, Figure Skating

• The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

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  Imagine, Ireland

• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

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  Scotland, Speech, Speak

• The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

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  Reality, Long, Minorities

• Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  Seamus Heaney

  Class System, Caste System, Want

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