Poet, novelist and critic Seamus Deane has died, he was 81. In his writing and in the formation of Field Day, Deane saw literature and the arts as a way of taking the power back from the discriminating regime that existed in Northern Ireland, Tony Roche, Geraldine Meaney, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O' Toole and Gerald Dawe remember Seamus Deane.