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" There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know. "

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" I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. "

" You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. "

" In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example. "

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" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

" I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. "

" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "

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" Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. "

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