"I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society."

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One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.

— Seamus Heaney