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In the United States, the word "Shamus" is a misspelling of Séamus and was a derogatory slang for a persisting stereotype of an Irish-American police officer — especially detectives and private investigators — continuing through to today, but at a much lesser degree. [4]
Seamus Heaney wrote a poem titled "England's Difficulty" which appeared in Stations, in which he asserted that during the Troubles, the opportunity resulting from England's difficulty was actually a source of trouble for many Irish people, who, akin to double agents, were torn between multiple loyalties.
Seumas (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈʃeːməs]) is a masculine given name in Scottish Gaelic and Scots, [1] equivalent to the English James. [2] The vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas is Sheumais, which has given form to the Anglicised form of this name, Hamish. [3]
There are a few reasons for all this wide variation in Irish spelling, says Ó Séaghdha. One is that “often those names were popular before people knew how to spell. A relatively old name like ...
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Séamus McGrath (born 1973/1974) [1] is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2024 general election. [2] [3] He was a member of Cork County Council from 2007 to 2024 for the Carrigaline area. [4] [5]
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature . Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
Séamus Ó Grianna (Irish pronunciation: [ˈʃeːmˠəsˠ oː ˈɟɾʲiən̪ˠə]; 17 November 1889 – 27 November 1969; locally known also as Jimí Fheilimí) was an Irish writer, who used the pen name Máire.