North by Seamus Heaney

North by Seamus HeaneyIn North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.

The other books in the Famine trilogy are Under the Hawthorn Tree and Fields of Home

to the right way to stop someone from choking

John immerses himself in the murky depths

too little money

Set in the closing months of World War II

journalist Becca Andrews tells the story how we have arrived at this devastating turning point

entwined with the twisting paths of German history

She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature

The story quickly shot to the top of the paper's most emailed list

After being admitted to hospital in 2020 with coronavirus

goes undercover to expose vast misogynist networks and communities

This exhaustively researched biography