He was the last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also included Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney
Ireland has lost one of its leading literary figures following the death of the multiple award-winning poet, Michael Longley.
In 2010, he was honoured with a Commander of the British Empire award and from 2007 to 2010, he served as Ireland Professor of Poetry, a cross-Border academic post administered by Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and both Arts Councils North and South. He was a member ofAosdána, the Irish association of distinguished artists.
Another poem, The Ice-Cream Man, was about how the owner of the shop he brought his child to had been murdered during the Northern Ireland conflict. Following a reading of this poem on the radio, Longley received a letter signed, The Ice cream Man’s Mother in which she thanked him for remembering her son. “Getting that stunning letter was one of the most important events in my life,” he subsequently said.
Trinity College was also where he met his wife-to-be, Edna Broder. Recalling his first encounters with Edna in the aforementioned Irish Times interview, he said: “I registered two things – the black raven hair and that she was brainy. One of the guiding things in my life has been intelligent women. Most men don’t like intelligent women. But I hang on their every word.” The couple married in 1964.
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