Seamus Heaney - But that citizen's perception ...

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Seamus Heaney

Irish Poet

Born: Apr 13, 1939

Died: Aug 30, 2013

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Truth, Change, Trust, Citizen, Perception, Possibilities, Recognizing, Destructive, Would, Brutality, Pursuing, New, Also, Were, IRA, New Possibilities, Very, Which, Means, Based

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