Author: Seamus Heaney

W. B. Yeats (1)
- IN: Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (1980) Fiction, Collection, Irish
  EPIGRAPH: At the enquiry which preceded the granting of a patent to the Abbey Theatre I was asked if _Cathleen ni Houlihan_ was not written to affect opinion. Certainly it was not. I had a dream one night which gave me a story, and I had certain emotions about this country, and I gave those emotions expression for my own pleasure. If I had written to convince others I would have asked myself, not ‘Is that exactly what I think and feel?’ but ‘How would that strike so-and-so? How will they think and feel when they have read it?’ And all would be oratorical and insincere. We only understand our own minds, and the things that are striving to utter themselves through our minds, and we move others, not because we have understood or thought about them at all, but because all life has the same root. Coventry Patmore has said, ‘The end of art is peace,’ and the following of art is little different from the following of religion in the intense preoccupation that it demands.
  FROM: Samhain: 1905' in Explorations, (1904), Article, Ireland

Charles Cumming (1)
- IN: A Colder War (2015) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: ...You are neither here nor there. A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.
  FROM: Postscript, (1996), Poem, Ireland
Pete Hamill (1)
- IN: The Christmas Kid (2012) Fiction, American
  EPIGRAPH: …I had my existence. I was there. Me in place and the place in me.
  FROM: A Herbal, (2010), Poem, Ireland
Jane Rusbridge (1)
- IN: Rook (2012) Fiction, British
  EPIGRAPH: At walking pace, Between overgrown verges, The dead here are borne Towards the future.
  FROM: "A Herbal", Human Chain, (2010), Poem, Ireland
Hugo Hamilton (1)
- IN: Every Single Minute (2014) Fiction, Irish
  EPIGRAPH: Where can I find another brother, ever?
  FROM: The Burial at Thebes, (2004), Play, Ireland