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Index 487 activism, 225, 295, 311 Alighieri, Dante, 2, 4, 17, 40, 184, 185, 215, 240–42, 247–57, 259–63, 265–68, 271, 273, 275, 279–80, 295, 360–63, 366–70, 372–74, 391–92, 394, 396, 433, 443–46, 457, 459 Barthes, Roland, 20 Benjamin, Walter, 324 biblical allusion/inspiration, 141, 142, 160, 196–97, 379, 381 birth imagery, 171–72, 233–34 blackness/American civil rights movement, 16, 161, 162–86 boundary (real or fictitious), 189, 214, 241, 287, 320, 330, 346, 410n129 Boyd, John, 43, 44, 48, 51, 57, 73, 77, 410n9, 411n14 British colonization/imperialism, 14, 42, 70, 112, 128, 161, 164, 177, 196, 220, 226, 234, 252, 269, 430n16 Brown, George Mackay, 5, 16, 102, 120 Burris, Sydney, 27 Buttel, Robert, 6 Caedmon, 5 Catholicism/Catholic Church, 225–26, 242–43, 271, 293, 358–59, 416n19, 430n10 community, 383, 404 Corcoran, Neil, 33, 102, 138, 182, 248, 256, 260, 261, 264, 265, 270, 271, 272, 275, 287, 314, 320, 324, 427n14, 431n20, 444n54, 451 Crawford, Robert, 30, 126, 217, 226, 227, 277, 408n77, 426n103 critical regionalism, 28–29, 129, 408n93 Dainotto, Roberto M., 22, 27, 28, 29, 33 deracination, 142, 289 direct language, 6, 232 Draper, R.P., 20, 29, 30, 126, 311 dual identity, 219–20, 221, 223, 225, 226, 228, 231, 237, 320, 325 ecumenism, 91, 92, 93, 115, 173, 243, 307, 403 Eliot, T.S., 204, 234, 241, 250, 256–61, 263, 265–68, 271, 273, 335, 360–63, 440n53, 443n36, 444n54, 445n72, 445nn74–75, 445nn77–78, 445n80, 446n84, 456n144 empathy, 299, 342–43 eternity/eternal rest, 384, 387–88, 389, 390, 392, 401, 404 Evans, E. Estyn, 30, 31, 34, 35, 65 exile, 252, 253–54, 325, 452n49 Falci, Eric, 20–21, 28 fictional place, 121–22 food imagery/images of consuming, 171, 181, 185 Foster, John Wilson, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 45, 49, 60, 85, 113, 114, 241, 311, 334, 340, 418n77, 423n41, 424n53, 427n113, 451n24 Frampton, Kenneth, 28, 29, 129, 408n93 Frost, Robert, 5–7, 32, 102, 116–18, 163, 319–20, 365, 385, 388, 405n12, 425n58, 439n42 Fussell, Paul, 393–94 Garland, Patrick, 15 gaze/gazing, 182–83, 194 gendered place (Ireland and Britain), 13–15, 60–61, 140–41, 161, 234, 236, 252, 406n48 genre, 188–89, 191, 193, 200, 206, 207 geographical place/space, 34, 49, 51, 56, 80, 103–4, 106, 107, 108, 109, 113, 114, 115–16, 121–22, 124, 129, 141, 151, 152, 158, 200, 212, 263, 269, 272, 273, 275, 280, 312, 315, 321, 322, 325, 329, 330, 345, 349, 350–51, 372–73, 407n54 Haffenden, John, 10 Hall, Jason David, 19, 170, 188, 248, 406n47 Hart, Henry, 11, 22, 128, 188, 189, 190, 208, 209, 259, 273, 435n28, 437n55, 439n42, 452n49 Heaney, Seamus and critical reception, 102, 222–23, 316, 334–35 and English language, 10, 24, 51, 59, 119–20, 123, 126, 146–47, 151, 192, 213, 214, 215, 246, 260, 283 film script by, 401 interviews, 7, 112, 120–21, 130, 279, 316, 318, 333, 340, 356 love for drama/dramatic readings, 283–84 and other regional authors, 4, 7–8, 9, 10–11, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 39, 41, 45, 49–50, 56–57, 58–59, 63–64, 76–77, 84–85, 101–29, 214, 216, 224, 226, 237, 247, 258–59, 284, 318–19, 336, 337–38, 367, 372, 401, 445n72 reflecting provincial/local dialect, 7, 8, 9, 16, 23–25, 53, 71, 119–20, 121, 131, 215 tour “Room to Rhyme,” 78, 427n12 Heaney, Seamus, anthologies Rattle Bag, The, 11, 22, 23–24 School Bag, The, 11, 324, 339 Heaney, Seamus, biography actor, 86, 283, 284 beginning poet, 130 Belfast Group, 32, 42, 52, 73, 101, 144 birth of grandchild, 400 Catholic “countryside” poet, 4–5, 8–9, 81, 109, 158–59, 177, 200, 201, 227, 243, 330, 349–50 Catholicism, 172–73, 254, 357, 366, 390, 431n36 collaborations, 1, 11, 22, 23–24, 77–78, 324, 339 eulogizer at Ted Hughes’s funeral, 11 family’s move to Republic of Ireland, 141–42 Field Day Theatre Company member, 17, 211, 218–19, 222, 223–24, 280, 282–83, 284–85, 286, 287, 288, 291, 401 leaving Northern Ireland, 186, 254 literary influences/inspirations, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9–10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 25, 105–6, 108–9, 110–29, 145, 157, 174, 176, 184, 189, 191, 198, 212, 213–15, 225, 232, 238, 246, 273...

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