No Vodka, Aquavit or Uisquebaugh

In Heaney’s writing, a strong desire to view ‘the matter of Ireland’1 through another language and culture can be found. Eugene O’Brien interprets the poet’s recourse to difference and otherness as a reflection of Stephen Dedalus’ desire ‘to fly by those nets of language, nationality and religion’.2 With this image, O’Brien captures Heaney’s quest for a kind of poetry situated ‘above’ the established ideological positions of Irish Nationalism and British Unionism.3 Through Russian literature, Heaney departs from his native country, intending to assess the Northern Irish reality from a different angle. The poet maintains that Northern Irish writers have to ‘take the strain of being in two places at once’ as they belong to a region which is ‘riven between notions of belonging to other places’.4 Therefore, writers from the North are expected to accommodate ‘two opposing conditions of truthfulness’5 in their poetry. The complexity of the local situation, according to Heaney, explains the large number of poems in which Northern Ireland is viewed from ‘a great spatial or temporal distance’.6 Many pieces of work are imagined from ‘beyond the grave’ or from ‘the perspective of mythological or historically remote characters’.7

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• Preoccupations

  Seamus Heaney•Preoccupations•1984

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• Russian formalist criticism

  Lee T Lemon, Marion J Reis•Russian formalist criticism•1965

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• Jean Baudrillard

  Mark Poster•Jean Baudrillard•2001

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• Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

  Open Access•Alan Robinson•Instabilities in Contemporary…•1988

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• The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

  Open Access•Elmer Andrews•Poetry of Seamus Heaney•1988

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• The Translator in the Text

  A Wanner, Rachel May•The Slavic and East European…•1995

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• Seamus Heaney

  Open Access•Michael Parker•Seamus Heaney•1993

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• A Dictionary of Hiberno-English

  Terence Dolan, Terence Patrick Dolan•Seanchas Ardmhacha Journal of the…•1999

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• Finders Keepers

  William Pratt, Seamus Heaney•World Literature Today•2003

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• Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones

  Garland Kimmer, Jonathan Hufstader et al.•South Atlantic Review•2001

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• Making Sense of the Troubles

  David Mckittrick, David Mcvea•Making Sense of the Troubles•2002

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• The Island

  Michael Futrell, Anton Chekhov et al.•Pacific Affairs•1968

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• An Interview with Seamus Heaney

  Frank Kinahan, Seamus Heaney•Critical Inquiry•1982

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