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I've been an admirer of his
poetry for many years now

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and an avid reader of it.

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And I'm very glad that I'm
here to introduce him to you.

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He was born in Dublin
in the year 1928.

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And by a very pleasant
coincidence, so was I.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We have agreed that
it was a vintage year.

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[LAUGHTER]

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If you think of Mr. Thomas
Kinsella as an Irish poet,

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I would like you to put
all sorts of shamrocks

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firmly out of your head.

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He is only an Irish poet
insofar as he is an Irish man.

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He is firmly in the
mainstream of modern poetry.

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And he's not in any
backwater, you can believe me.

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It gives me very
much pleasure indeed

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to introduce Mr.
Thomas Kinsella.

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[APPLAUSE]

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