The poem When All The Others Were Away at Mass (from Clearances 111 - In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984) by Seamus Heaney has been named as Ireland's favourite poem of the last hundred years.
President Michael D. Higgins announced the winner during the filming of a special episode of the RTE Arts Show The Works at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
The poem which recalls a morning shared between the young author and his mother, peeling potatoes, was chosen as the best loved Irish poem of the past century.
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