Tread softly…Irish Poets in the UK

Tread
Softly… draws together not just the Irish and English, but also groups within
these two general groups such as Irish poets brought up in Ireland but who
come to reside in the UK, poets brought up here but whose parents were
migrants of one sort or another. And then, of course, there is the great band
of Northern Irish poets who are differently Irish in the UK, since Northern
Ireland remains part of the UK. Here there are two splinter groups: poets
(such as Heaney, Montague) brought up in the Catholic religion, and those
linked to the Protestant ascendancy such as Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley
English by birth but brought up and a long-time resident in the North of
Ireland – all of whom, of course, transcend the limits of their tribe.