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Oct 17, 2026

“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.

“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.

Seamus Heaney, Irish Writers Series, Episode 228

Oct 17 · 1 Mention

Rod MurphyHOST
0:49
American poet Robert Lowell described him as, quote, the most important Irish poet since Yeats, unquote.
Rod MurphyHOST
0:58
And many others, including academic John Sutherland, who said that he was, quote, the greatest poet of our age, unquote.
Rod MurphyHOST
1:07
Robert Pinsky has stated that, quote, with his wonderful gift of eye and ear, Heaney has the gift of the storyteller, unquote.
Rod MurphyHOST
1:17
Upon his death in 2013, the newspaper, The Independent, described him as, quote, probably the best known poet in the world, unquote.

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