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Tuned In: Chicago Symphony Orchestra comesFostering and promoting the work of emerging young composers should be one of the sacred missions of any symphony orchestra of substance and sterling repute, and that indeed appears to be high on the agenda for music director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Posted on 9 February 2012 | 8:14 am
Abigail E. Disney: A Commitment toWhen I use the word "suffering" I know what I am talking about. Last Friday, I watched my mother take her last labored breath after years of anguish, humiliation, physical pain and mental misery.
Posted on 8 February 2012 | 2:25 am
Armagh novelist celebrates first bookDarran McCann celebrates the highs and lows of his first novel.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 12:02 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will readLEXINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey will give a reading at Washington and Lee University at 4:30 p.m. today in Northen Auditorium of Leyburn Library. She will read from her earlier works and from her forthcoming collection Thrall.
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 12:08 pm
Independence for Scottish literatureIf Scotland gains full autonomy, its literature won't be far behind and 'British' writing will look rather thinner as a result Last night, as I listened to Alex Salmond give a cunning and subversive account of his plans for Scottish independence, in the Hugo Young lecture , it occurred to me that if the politics of the United Kingdom becomes fragmented, then culture will surely follow. The ...
Posted on 29 January 2012 | 6:13 am

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SCC ENGLISH: Podcast 30: SeamusThis examines Seamus Heaney's poem 'Sunlight', one of the dedicatory poems called 'Mossbawn', which open his 1975 collection North. 'Sunlight' is a poem of great warmth, recreating a scene from his childhood on the ...
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 4:06 pm
Seamus Heaney'sOur 30th podcast is one of an occasional series on poems on the Irish Leaving Certificate English course. This examines Seamus Heaney's poem 'Sunlight', one of the dedicatory poems called 'Mossbawn', which open his ...
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 3:52 pm
“Exposure” by Seamus Heaney:“Exposure” by Seamus Heaney: Analysis “the diamond absolutes” – LIGHT. Filed under: Heaney — Leave a comment. January 30, 2012. There are a number of ways this can be read. I will look at the poem's references to LIGHT in this ...
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 10:25 pm
“Funeral Rites” by Seamus Heaney:“Funeral Rites” by Seamus Heaney: Analysis “I would restore/the great chambers of Boyne”. Filed under: Heaney — Leave a comment. January 30, 2012. The poem is in three sections. In the first he talks about his own experience of funerals.
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 10:15 pm
Poetry Saturdays: Seamus Heaney - TheSeamus Heaney, born in Northern Ireland in 1939, has been called the most important Irish poet since Yeats, and is also famous for his translations from the Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize for ...
Posted on 28 January 2012 | 3:09 pm