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A special show paying tribute to late Derry born writer, critic and academic, Seamus Deane.

Marie-Louise Muir will be talking to poet Gerard Dawe who believes Deane's poetry has been under celebrated in favour of his contemporaries like Heaney and Mahon. Also the former administrator of Field Day Theatre Company Gary McKeone who was there when the controversial Anthology was published and the subsequent fall out from women writers, and Gerardine Meaney who was taught by Deane and who now lectures in English at UCD.

Seamus Deane was probably best-known for his award-winning autobiographical novel Reading in the Dark, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. But he was also a proud Derry man whose thinking was shaped by the city. As the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said "To Derry he leaves the incomparable legacy of the life, the writing, the concerns, the despair and the hope, that he shared with its people and to which so much of the work would respond. "Few cities have a writer more embedded in its people, its history, its challenges, its hopes and its humour"

Photograph courtesy of The Derry Journal.