Works by Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Eavan Boland are being removed from A-level courses by an English exam board.
Seamus Heaney is among the Irish writers whose work will be removed by the OCR exam board
The Education Secretary in England Nadhim Zahawi said the removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from the same course'Punishment' first appeared in Heaney's 1975 collection 'North', and compares the discovery of an ancient woman's body in a bog to "tarring and feathering" during the Troubles.
The other poets on the course are William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Carol-Ann Duffy and Jacob Sam-La Rose. Plays by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams and Jez Butterworth will remain on the revised OCR A-Level.
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