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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Seamus Deane Information
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 Seamus Deane is an Irish poet, critic and novelist. Deane was born into a Roman Catholic nationalist family in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1940. He attended the well known St. Columb's College in... 
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 The New York Observer City's Literary Set Revives a Giant
4/17/2005: 816 words, approx. 3 pagesIn the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first novel, The Year of the French (1979), won a National Book... summary from source:
The New York Observer Found in Translation: Brian Friel\'d5s Irish Soul
2/4/2007: 1,069 words, approx. 4 pagesIt’s a pity that Brian Friel’s wonderful Translations at the Biltmore Theatre is talked about as particularly “relevant” to the Iraq War. Relevance has become a nagging mantra of our times, as if topicality counts for everything. Mr. Friel, Ireland’s greatest dramatist, is a poet... summary from source:
The New York Observer Ralph Fiennes Is Faithful To Brilliant Words of Friel
5/21/2006: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pagesI love Brian Friel’s heart and soul, suffering though they are. Mr. Friel stands above the new generation of Irish dramatists, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson, and you have only to see his haunting and wonderful Faith Healer to understand why. There is—to borrow a... summary from source:
The New York Observer Ralph Fiennes Is Faith ful To Brilliant Words of Friel
5/21/2006: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pagesI love Brian Friel’s heart and soul, suffering though they are. Mr. Friel stands above the new generation of Irish dramatists, Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson, and you have only to see his haunting and wonderful Faith Healer to understand why. There is—to borrow...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Patricia Craig
3,038 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the following review, Craig favorably compares Celtic Revivals to contemporaneous cultural critiques of literary constructions of "Anglo-Irishness."
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Critical Review by Tom Halpin
2,413 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following review, Halpin provides an overview of Selected Poems, outlining the general characteristics of Deane's poetry.
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Critical Review by Patrick Parrinder
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In the following excerpt, Parrinder delineates Irish cultural history as defined in A Short History of Literature, deconstructing Deane's bias against Irish national mythology.
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