Escritores que nasceram, viveram ou vivem em Belfast.

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CS Lewis 1898-1963

Conhecido mundialmente por ser autor da serie de livros “As Crônicas de Nárnia.”

1937 -Gollancz Memorial Prize for Literature

1946- Honorary Doctor of Divinity by the University of St. Andrews.

1948-Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

1952 –Hon. degree of Doctor of Letters by Laval University, Quebec.

1956 -Lewis received the Carnegie Medal in recognition of The Last Battle.

1958 Hon. Fellow of Uni. College, Oxford.

1959 honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of Manchester.

“Education without

values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a ore clever

devil.”

Mosaic

A man may objectively inherita role in history,reluctantly or with devotion,soldier, functionary, rebel,engaging himself as an instrumentof required stability or urgent change.

But the bystanders accidently involved,the child on an errand run over by the army truckthe young woman strayed into the line of fire,the elderly person beside the wall when it fellare marginalia only,normally excluded from documents.

History is selective. Give us insteadthe whole mosaic, the tesserae,that we may judge if a period indeedhas a pattern and is not merelya handful of coloured stones in the dust.

Honorary doctorates the University of Ulster and

Queen's University Belfast.

John Harold Hewitt 1907-1987

Frederick Louis MacNeice 1907 – 1963

“ Poetry in my opinion must be honest before

anything else and I refuse to be 'objective' or clear-

cut at the cost of honesty. ”

“Cradle Song”

Sleep, my darling, sleep; The pity of it all Is all we compass if We watch disaster fall.Put off your twenty-odd Encumbered years and creep Into the only heaven, The robbers’ cave of sleep. ………………When the winsome bubble Shivers, when the bough Breaks, will be the moment But not here or now.Sleep and, asleep, forget The watchers on the wall Awake all night who know The pity of it all.

Brian Moore 1921 – 1999 -novelist.

James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 Sunday Express Book of the Year 1987 03 vezes finalista do Booker Prize

Muitas de seus romances foram adaptados para o cinema, incluindo:Intent to Kill (1958), The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, Black Robe, Cold Heaven, and The Statement. Ele tambem escreveu para Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain e The Blood of Others, basedo no romance Le Sang des autres de Simone de Beauvoir.

“When you're a writer you no longer see

things with the freshness of the

normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.”

…………………………………..So on a day when newcomers appear

Let it be a homecoming and let us speakThe unstrange word, as it behoves us here,

Move lips, move minds and make new meanings flareLike ancient beacons signalling, peak to peak,

From middle sea to north sea, shining clearAs phoenix flame upon fionn uisce here.

Seamus Justin Heaney-1939 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 Whitbread Book of the Year

O Poema abaixo foi feito para homenagear os paises que entraram para a Comunidadade Europeia em 2004 e os novos imigrantes.

Beacons at Bealtaine

The Kilt’

‘He had killed him in real life and in real life had killedLice by sliding along the pleats a sizzling bayonetSo that his kilt unravelled when he was advancing.

You pick up the stitches and with needle and threadAccompany him out of the grave and into battle, Your arms full of material and his nakedness.’

O poeta descreve o pesadelo recorrente do seu pai, que esfaqueou um soldado alemao.

Whitbread Poetry Prize T. S. Eliot Prize and the

Hawthornden Prize.2001 Queen's Gold

Medal 2007 Professor of Poetry for Ireland.

Michael Longley 1939

‘On Devenish Island’

‘That was a lazy Sunday among the ruins.When we flicked ash into the saint’s stone bed,Or pitched our baseball through the perfect archOf a church window’s crumbling Romanesque,We meant no harm, the past completed there Was not affected.’

Frank Ormsby -1947

Since 1976 -Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academicals

Institution.1992 he received the

Cultural Traditions Award

Tib's Eve

There is a green hill far away, without a city wall,Where cows have longer horns than any that we know;Where daylight hours behold a moon of indigo,………………………………….Where everything is metaphor and simile:Somnambulists, we stumble through this paradiseFrom time to time, like words repeated in our prayers,Or storytellers who convince themselves that truths are lies

Ciarán Carson - 1948

Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Belfat Confetti (1990), The Irish Times Irish

Literature Prize for Poetry; (1993),

T. S. Eliot Prize. Forward Poetry Prize and a

Cholmondeley Award.

BUTTERFLY MEMORY OBJECT

The simple outlines of tulips: What makes these war flowers?The war recycled like an earthrisePhotographed from the distanceOf a six-day-old moon.…………………………..Still deadly places are foldedInto an unburial ground, where restingSoldiers tell the munitionettesThey're easy to sleep with,And for your button a kiss.

1982-Eric Gregory Award. Rooney prize for Irish Literature,Ireland Arts Council Award Alice 1983-Hunt Bartlett Award1989 Cheltenham Prize.2002 Forward Poetry Prize

Medbh McGuckian - 1950.

Glenn Patterson 1961. Tutor in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast.

His novels are

Burning Your Own (1988)

Fat Lad (1992)

Black Night at Big Thunder

Mountain (1995)

The International (1999)

Number 5 (2003)

That Which Was (2004)

The third party (2007)

…”Northern Irish civil war being as unacceptable to republican grassroots as a six-counties war would be to unionists. (For practical purposes most people in Northern Ireland/the Six Counties agree to call this "here".) “

'There Was Fire in Vancouver'

There was fire in Vancouver,And we leaned out into the night to watch itSet light to the East End.It had taken stand on Commercial Avenue.……………………………………………….There were no sirens, hoses, buckets even,Scattering streets and 'Fire!''Fire!'We seemed the only ones conscious of the bright crusadeAnd we watched with Moses standing in our heads.

1990 - Patrick Kavanagh Award shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Lannan Foundation fellowship 2008 -British National Poetry Competition.

Sinead Morrissey 1972.

Robert McLiam Wilson -1964 - novelist

1989-Ripley Bogle - Rooney Prize and the Hughes

Prize.

1990-Betty Trask -Award and the Irish Book Award

Eureka Street focuses on the lives of two Belfast

friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly

before and after the IRA ceasefires in 1994

“The tragedy was that Northern Ireland (Scottish) Protestants thought themselves like the British.

Northern Ireland (Irish) Catholics thought themselves like Eireans (proper Irish). The comedy was that any

once-strong difference had long melted away and they resembled no one now much as they resembled each other. The world saw this and wondered, but round

these parts folk were blind. (163)”

William Butler Yeats -1865 - 19391923-Nobel Prize in Literature

'If I die bury me up there [at Roquebrune] and then in a

year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up

and plant me in Sligo".

VIUnder bare Ben Bulben's headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.An ancestor was rector thereLong years ago, a church stands near,By the road an ancient cross.No marble, no conventional phrase;On limestone quarried near the spotBy his command these words are cut:Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!*

*versos que se tornaram seu epitafio.

Under Ben Bulben

1895, após três julgamentos, foi condenado a dois anos de prisão. Em seu único romance, O Retrato de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde trata da arte, da vaidade e das manipulações humanas.

1874- Ganha a medalha de Ouro de Berkeley

1876- Ganha o prêmio em literatura grega e latina, no Magdalen College. 1878- Ganha o prêmio Newizgate.1887-89- Trabalha como editor de The Woman's World.1890- A primeira versão de O Retrato de Dorian Gray e publicada.1893- Salomé é bem recebida quando produzida em Paris e Berlim.

Oscar Wilde

“I can resist everything

except temptation.”

Lord Darlington, Act I