Bernard O'Donoghue Quotes

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We were terribly lucky to catch
The Ceauşescus' execution, being
By sheer chance that Christmas Day
In the only house for twenty miles
With satellite TV. We sat,
Cradling brandies, by the fire
Watching those two small, cranky autocrats
Lying in snow against a blood-spattered wall,
Hardly able to believe our good fortune.

Bernard O'Donoghue

The reporter told us how
The cross woman's peasant origins
Came out at the last, shouting
At her executioners 'I have been
A mother to you and this is how
You thank me for it.'

Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue

Born: 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Bernard O'Donoghue is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic.

Known for:

The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016)
Farmers Cross (2011)
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009)
Seamus Heaney and the language of poetry (1994)
Outliving (2003)

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