He labors not only as a distinguished representative of the United States. and a loyal son of Ireland. but as an ambassador from what the Irish poet Seamus Heaney refers to as "the Republic of Conscience." "The Republic of Conscience". according to Heaneys poem of that name. is a quiet place. and one where you might meet some of your ancestors. According to Heaneys narrator: When I landed in the Republic of Conscience: It was so noiseless when the engines stopped: I could hear a curlew high above the runway. At Immigration. the clerk was an old man. Who produced a wallet from his homespun coat. And showed me a photograph of my grandfather.
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