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Article: Boston hails `local boy' Heaney
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1995
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Only in Boston, where provincialism is a pastime, could Seamus
Heaney's Nobel Prize be portrayed as a case of local boy makes good.
But as news spread yesterday that the Irish poet had won
literature's greatest prize, it was greeted on both sides of the
Charles River as if a native son had grabbed the gold.
In fact, Boston and Cambridge have sort of adopted Heaney, who has
taught the spring semester at Harvard University for more than a
decade. And Heaney has returned the affection.
Over the years, Heaney has become part of the local landscape, as
apt to be standing in the cramped aisles of a Cambridge bookstore as
he is to be sitting in any number of the Irish pubs that abound on
both sides ...