Seamus Heaney’s home

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    • May 23, 2002 at 9:14 am #705320
      GregF
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      See that a house where the Nobel Prize Winner Seamus Heaney once lived was demolished yesterday in Northern Ireland. It was a fine red bricked Victorian/Edwardian house too by the looks of it. Are they suffering from our illness too ‘demolishmentalitis’ or was it just plain bigotry.

    • May 23, 2002 at 12:40 pm #719075
      Luke Gardnier
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      I think you read too much into this………but did he not refuse or decline the position of Poet Lauriate when offered to him on the basis of his “background” !! ……….so it works both ways. Regardless of him living there it was a fine example of a twin bay-windowed Edwardian residence.

    • May 26, 2002 at 8:24 am #719076
      dc3
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      It is called parity of esteem.

      We knock the former Carson house in Dublin, Belfast knocks the Heaney house.

      Whatever about our differences, we dont disagree very much about conservation or heritage issues!

    • May 27, 2002 at 12:59 pm #719077
      Luke Gardnier
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      “Conservation and heritage issues”….we’re not at the races when compared to NI….

      ECOS – Millennium Environmental Interactive Centre @ Ballymena, Ulster Transport Museum @ Cultra Belfast, W5 Science and Engineering Interactive Centre @ Odessey Belfast, St. Patrick’s Train Visitor Complex @Armagh, Lagan Lookout Visitor’s Centre , Lough Neagh Discovery Centre, Foyle Valley Railway Centre, Exploris Aquarium (Biggest in the UK) @ Portaferry… most designed and built in the last few years.

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