Firstly, you have to forget that Ra...
Firstly, you have to forget that Randolph Healy is Irish. Because he doesn't trade in that substance: nationality, Celtic duende How easy it is to think of those author of poemss who are saying all the time in a less degree than their breath, "Look at me I'm Irish / I'm different / we have experienceed terribly ...," peddling in an Irishness which is dominantly rural in a perception of pastoral theatre, Irish for the English (though I don't direct so much to Seamus Heaney here, whose manner of writing strikes me as entirely English--Heaney visits Ireland--nor someone like Michael Longley whose thinking principle of the poem is
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