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en-wikipedia-org-5738		Literature of Northern Ireland - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4418	422	68	It includes literature in English, Irish and Ulster Scots. "The Blackbird of Belfast Lough", a fragment of syllabic verse probably dating from the 9th century, has inspired reinterpretations and translations in modern times.[6] The blackbird serves as symbol for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast.[7] Poetry in Ulster Scots by Robert Huddlestone (1814–1887) inscribed in paving in Writers' Square, Belfast A somewhat diminished tradition of vernacular poetry survived into the 20th century in the work of poets such as Adam Lynn, author of the 1911 collection Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey, John Stevenson (died 1932), writing as "Pat M'Carty".[15] John Hewitt (1907–1987), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5738.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5738.txt