Michael Longley, born in Belfast on 27 July 1939, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and read classics at Trinity College Dublin. He later taught in Dublin, London and Belfast, and served, from 1970 until his retirement in 1991, as Director of Combined Arts at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The author of thirteen poetry collections, as...
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