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Book Review: The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (1886–1926)
- M. Parker
- History
- 26 March 1998
This work tells the story of the Student Volunteer Movement, which launched modern American Protestant missions. It describes how between 1886 and 1926 the SVM was at the centre of this movement and…
Past master: Czeslaw Milosz and his impact on the poetry of Seamus Heaney
- M. Parker
- Art
- 1 August 2013
The essay examines the influence of Czeslaw Milosz on Seamus Heaney's writing, focusing primarily on the early 1980s, which was a period of major transition in Heaney's literary and academic career,…
Fallout from the thunder: poetry and politics in Seamus Heaney's District and Circle
- M. Parker
- Art, History
- 1 November 2008
This article examines Heaney's preoccupation in District and Circle (2006) with international political events during this ‘new age of anxiety’, and how he initially approaches these circuitously…
From Winter Seeds to Wintering Out : The Evolution of Heaney's Third Collection
- M. Parker
- Linguistics
- 21 June 2007
Winter Seeds is the title that Seamus Heaney originally gave to his third collection, which comprises poems written between 1969 and late September, 1971, and which was published as Wintering Out…
‘His Nibs’: Self-Reflexivity and the Significance of Translation in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
- M. Parker
- Art, Linguistics
- 6 November 2012
Drawing on rare archive material, this essay begins by exploring factors that might explain why Seamus Heaney's work is so self-reflexive, self-referential in its cast, and how despite the…
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
- M. Parker
- Art
- 1993
In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an…
Back in the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, its politics, ethics and aesthetics
- M. Parker
- Art
- 7 June 2017
ABSTRACT For Seamus Heaney translation was by no means peripheral to his literary project, but central to it, not least as a means of renewing his creative impetus and extending the reach of his work…
Northern Odyssey: John Montague's "The Cry" (1964) in Its Political Contexts
- M. Parker
- History
- 23 May 2003
As Roy Foster has pointed out, the civil conflict in Northern Ireland, which broke out in 1969, was the product both of "the crisis in Unionism" and "the rad icalisation of Catholic politics; though…
A Good Anchor: Home and Education, 1939–61
- M. Parker
- History
- 1993
Whatever poetic success I’ve had has come from staying within the realm of my own imaginative country and my own voice.2
Seamus Justin Heaney was born on 13 April 1939, at Mossbawn, near…
Pragmatic Bioethics (Second Edition). Edited by Glenn McGee. Pp. 293. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003.) £45.95, ISBN 0-262-13430-6, hardback.
- M. Parker
- MedicineJournal of Biosocial Science
- 8 June 2006
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