Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Moreover, I actually do live in the real world. I think we all live in our different real worlds.

I also recall the debate in college about the relationship between politics and literature and there always were people who thought writers should be more engaged with the Northern conflict in particular. While this of course is not a place to rehearse that interesting debate, Seamus Heaney always featured very strongly in it. While from what I can see or have read, he resisted formal affiliation to any partisan cause or party political agenda, it is important to state he was always engaged with politics in the bigger sense of the origin of the word, which is people.

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