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Mike Boyle
I am from Drummuck near Maghera. I attended Trench Belfast in the mid-1960s and Seamus Heaney was one of my teachers. I am now working on a new play about N.Ireland in 1956. Would you believe it that as a "nipper" I was a Christmas Rhymer in South Derry and that then a few years later I took part in the famous mummering tradition of Newfoundland?
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No Cultural Government Grants Here
by Mike Boyle
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I was born hundred years after the Famine.
My aunt taught our native tongue.
To a resilient breed of men and women.
They climbed over fields and up the moss.
From Upperlands came Mr Dickey
The foreman from Clarks linen mill
Each year he gave us Christmas gifts.
He didn't walk to Drummuck .
It only now I know why
He always kept his bicycle
In the kitchen.
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