Derry Literature
The city of Derry and surrounding countryside of County Londonderry have become well known for their literary legacy, including the Restoration dramatist George Farquhar, poet Seamus Heaney, poet Seamus Deane, playwright Brian Friel, and writer and music critic Nik Cohn, authors Joyce Cary, Jennifer Johnston and others.
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“Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)