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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2018-03-17</publicationDate>
        <volume>13</volume>
    <issue>13</issue>
        <startPage>98</startPage>
    <endPage>112</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>8103</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Reality and Justice: Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Marilynn Richtarik ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ In his Field Day play The Cure at Troy (1990), Seamus Heaney was responding more directly than has been hitherto recognized to the contemporary political situation in Northern Ireland. This essay examines Heaney’s drama in the context of the first tentative steps in what would come to be called the peace process: SDLP leader John Hume’s early discussions with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. Through his imaginative use of the Chorus, Heaney sought to encourage the play’s original audiences to focus on the future rather than the past, and to believe that something better was possible.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Seamus Heaney</keyword>
              <keyword>The Cure at Troy</keyword>
              <keyword>Peace Process</keyword>
              <keyword>Northern Ireland</keyword>
              <keyword>John Hume</keyword>
              <keyword>Gerry Adams</keyword>
              <keyword>Field Day Theatre Company</keyword>
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