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Interview with Michael Longley by the students of Methodist College, Belfast for Civic Voices Memory Bank on 16 April 2010

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Transcript of an interview with Michael Longley, poet, by the students of Methodist College Belfast for Civic Voices Memory Bank on 16 April 2010. Longley discusses the impact of the Troubles on his poetry and the Arts more widely. Civic Voices is an international education project which seeks to highlight the significance of political and community activism to the development of peace and democracy around the world. The Memory Bank is an archive of personal testimony of those engaged in such political and community activism.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 16 April 2010

Name of First Interviewee: Michael Longley

Role at time of Interview: Poet

Interviewer: Students of Methodist College, Belfast

Purpose: Research, Academic

Media: Audio, Audiovisual, Transcript

Copyright: (c) Civic Voices

Link: Access the resource

Programme/Book/Article: Civic Voices International Democracy Memory Bank

Key Individuals: Michael Longley

Key Words: Belfast, youth, education, border campaign, civil rights, Burntollet, IRA, Second World War, the Arts, Irish language, Mountbatten assassination

 

 

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