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Post April 30 2004, 12:03 PM
peter_g
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hi there.

for my university studies i have to work on the poem "anahorish" by seamus heaney. my professor told me also to focus on the meaning of the word "anahorish". i couldn't find any translation or explanation and maybe you could help me with that.

greetings,
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Post April 30 2004, 12:37 PM
Niall Mór
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The meaning is given in the first line of the poem 'place of clear water'
Post April 30 2004, 13:14 PM
Colleen75
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Anahorish is also a place in Derry, Seamus heaney attended the Anahorish Primary School Derry.

colleen
Post April 30 2004, 17:05 PM
Conor
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Colleen75 wrote:Anahorish is also a place in Derry,


It is? 8O
Post April 30 2004, 21:05 PM
Brian
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Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, the eldest of nine children, to Margaret and Patrick Heaney, at the family farm, Mossbawn, about 30 miles northwest of Belfast in County Derry. He attended the local school at Anahorish until 1957, when he enrolled at Queen's College, Belfast and took a first in English there in 1961. The next school year he took a teacher's certificate in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast. In 1963 he took a position as a lecturer in English at the same
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
Post April 30 2004, 21:07 PM
Brian
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Is there a place in Derry 30 miles to the west of Belfast :/

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It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
Post April 30 2004, 21:17 PM
Conor
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ah! it's in county derry i remember reading about that somewhere
Post April 30 2004, 21:23 PM
Brian
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Conor it''s almost 10 .30

isnt it Jamies time?

Off to do leaba leat a bhuachaill- anois :wink:
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It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
Post April 30 2004, 21:24 PM
Conor
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Pól wrote:Off to do leaba leat a bhuacaill- anois :wink:


Remind me never to post poems like that again :wink:
Post April 30 2004, 21:24 PM
Corvus93
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but it's FRIDAY NIGHT! :heul:

doesn't he get to stay up past bed time??? :cry:

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