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Annwyl i mi / Dear to Me: a hidden landscape
Reading Owen Sheers’ Calon, I came across a quotation from Seamus Heaney’s Postscript that Sheers uses to describe the experience of the Welsh rugby supporter emotionally buffeted by the vagaries of the national team: ‘to catch the heart off guard and blow it open’. I was struck by the surprise, thrill and implied violence of the description and it made me seek Heaney’s poem to understand the context of the quotation. read more…
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Fearghus appointed Deputy Chair of the Arts Council
In January 2019, The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, T.D appointed Fearghus Deputy Chair of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.