Seamus Deane
Born
in Derry, Northern Ireland
February 09, 1940
Died
May 12, 2021
Genre
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Reading in the Dark
41 editions
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published
1996
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A Short History of Irish Literature
4 editions
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published
1986
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Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature
3 editions
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published
1985
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Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790
3 editions
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published
1990
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Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018
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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing - 3 Volume Set
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published
1991
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The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789-1832
2 editions
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published
1988
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Selected Poems
2 editions
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published
1988
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Irish Writers 1886 - 1986
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History Lessons
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“People with green eyes were close to the fairies, we were told; they were just here for a little while, looking for a human child they could take away. If we ever met anyone with one green and one brown eye we were to cross ourselves, for that was a human child that had been taken over by the fairies. The brown eye was the sign it had been human. When it died, it would go into the fairy mounds that lay behind the Donegal mountains, not to heaven, purgatory, limbo or hell like the rest of us. These strange destinations excited me, especially when a priest came to the house of a dying person to give the last rites, the sacrament of Extreme Unction. That was to stop the person going to hell. Hell was a deep place. You fell into it, turning over and over in mid-air until the blackness sucked you into a great whirlpool of flames and you disappeared forever.”
― Reading in the Dark
― Reading in the Dark
“The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.”
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