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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator:	Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Summary:	Draft A incomplete, with pages numbered 1-18 and with attached fragments numbered 3 and 11. Draft B with pages numbered 1-19.
In collection:	Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010
Format:	Manuscript
Notes:	Essay collected under the title 'The Interesting Case of Nero, Chekhov's Cognac and a Knocker'; first published in 'Shenandoah' Vol. 37, 1987 and based on a lecture given at the Royal Dublin Society and other locations (1986). Taken from a envelope originally marked 'Typescripts with Amendments Government of the Tongue'. Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland. There are additional Seamus Heaney manuscripts held in the Department of Manuscripts (MS 41,932/1-3). This consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'Sweeney Astray', with additional notes on early Irish poetry; Physical description: 41 pages. more
Arrangement:	Sub-fonds