A reading of Seamus Heaney's poem dedicated to the memory of his mother, the third in a series of sonnets called "Clearances," from his 1987 book, The Haw Lantern. As a part of A Poem for Ireland project, this poem was voted by listeners of the RTE as the favorite Irish poem of the twentieth century.

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