Seamus Heaney Quote

Generations of gifted northern poets have let the linguistic cat out of the sectarian bag, setting it free in the great street carnival of 'protholics and catestants'.


Quoted in the Observer, 12 April 1998


Generations of gifted northern poets have let the linguistic cat out of the sectarian bag, setting it free in the great street carnival of...

Generations of gifted northern poets have let the linguistic cat out of the sectarian bag, setting it free in the great street carnival of...

Generations of gifted northern poets have let the linguistic cat out of the sectarian bag, setting it free in the great street carnival of...

Generations of gifted northern poets have let the linguistic cat out of the sectarian bag, setting it free in the great street carnival of...