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Seamus Heaney obituary
Irish poet and Nobel laureate whose lines of love and loss took inspiration from his childhood in DerryIn 2009, as part of the extensive celebrations in Ireland for his 70th birthday, RTÉ broadcast a...
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Sean O'Hagan: 'Field Work spoke of a world I knew and had just left behind'
How Seamus Heaney's descriptions of life during the Troubles called to mind raw personal experienceI'd just started studying for an English degree in London in 1979 when Seamus Heaney's Field Work was...
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Bono on Seamus Heaney: 'His words have kept me afloat'
The U2 frontman talks about the strength he draws from Seamus Heaney's poetryEvery meeting I've ever had since I began full-time advocacy, I have brought with me a book of Seamus Heaney's poems. I...
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Seamus Heaney remembered
Seamus Heaney, who has died at the age of 74, was a poet of immense power, a brilliant intellect, an inspiration to others – and the best of companyMy first thought on hearing the immeasurably sad news...
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The veteran broadcaster suffered a heart attack on the cruise ship the Queen Elizabeth
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Sir David Frost obituary
Veteran broadcaster who started out in the 60s satire boom and found worldwide fame with his TV interviewsFor half a century, Sir David Frost, who has died aged 74 of a heart attack, was hardly ever...
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Walter Hoffman obituary
My father, Walter Hoffman, who has died aged 93, had a distinguished 32-year career with the United Nations, including a six-year stint (1958-64) in Mexico as administrative head of the Economic...
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Juanita Carberry obituary
My friend Juanita Carberry grew up in Kenya among wild animals and domesticated creatures that included tame mongooses, cheetahs and a chimpanzee. Her human playmates taught her their language and...
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Martin Low obituary
My brother Martin Low, who has died aged 63 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was a pioneering biochemist whose seminal work helped to uncover a new and unexpected organising principle of how...
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Lydia Gridneff obituary
My mother, Lydia Gridneff, who has died aged 96, was born into a circus family. Her father, Aaron Gherman, had a musical clown act with which his wife, Olga, and their children – Michael, Ralph, Sonia,...
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Fanni Bogdanow obituary
In the 1450s, Sir Thomas Malory sat down at his prison table to write his glorious Le Morte d'Arthur. He had sent for a rich and exciting library of Arthurian romances, a few of them in middle English...
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John Bellany obituary
Scottish painter whose work was characterised by brutality, torment and compassionThe paintings of the Scottish artist John Bellany, who has died aged 71 after a long illness, confronted issues of...
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David Jacobs obituary
Juke Box Jury chairman who went on to keep leading politicians in line on radio's Any Questions?David Jacobs, who has died aged 87, was a radio and television broadcaster of considerable versatility...
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Frederik Pohl obituary
Popular and prolific American science-fiction writerFrederik Pohl, who has died aged 93, was one of the greatest and most prolific of American science-fiction writers. During a career lasting more than...
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Jacqueline Shane obituary
My mother, Jacqueline Shane, who has died aged 69, was a wildlife activist, an ecologist, a former computer scientist and a CND campaigner.She was born in London, to activist parents, Manny and Yvonne...
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Joan Bakewell on John Bellany: 'He told me the painting so absorbed him, the...
In 1988 the Scottish painter John Bellany needed a liver transplant: he was ailing badly and even his paintings had become pale and wan. For our Easter Sunday programme in 1989, BBC 1's Heart of the...
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Ronald Coase obituary
Nobel prizewinning economist behind the principle of carbon credit tradingRonald Coase, who has died aged 102, won the Nobel prize for economic sciences in 1991 for his work in discovering and...
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Letter: David Frost's school of reporting
At grammar school in Gillingham, when the rest of us had to learn a poem to recite to the class, David Frost somehow got the teacher's permission to tell jokes instead. He and I played in an...
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Letter: Seamus Heaney's poem for a shoeless lady
After taking part in a poetry programme for BBC School Radio, Seamus Heaney and I repaired to the George pub, round the corner from the BBC, with the producer Stuart Evans and his wife, Kay. We then...
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Alfred Hassell Smith obituary
The study of the aristocratic family household in the 16th and 17th centuries has been a potent means of understanding the social history of England in the pre-industrial period. One of the leading...
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