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Michael Longley, prize-winning poet of ‘griefs and wonders’, dies aged 85

Part of a gifted generation of writers from Northern Ireland, Longley also gave years of service to the province’s arts council

Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whom Seamus Heaney described as “a …

4 months ago

The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor review – the tragic lives of Richard II and Henry IV

A rich and vivid history of the Plantagenet cousins and rivals for the English throne

‘Richard II tried first being a Good King and then a Bad King without enjoying either very much. Then being told h…

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