The music and humanity of language, a gift from the great poet to a young and nervous journalist in 1970's Belfast... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Remembering Michael Longley, by Olivia O'Leary above.
Belfast was a dark place in the 1970's. That car parked on its own in the street could be a bomb. The knock at the door could be a gunman. People lived with these threats every day...
This essay appeared on the programme of March 1st - listen back here
