SNIPPET: Researchers with Northern Ireland roots may enjoy Seamus DEANE's work. DEANE was born in Derry in 1940, has taught at Notre Dame and published a number of works including his novel which won the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize, "Reading In The Dark." Derry-born poet Seamus HEANEY, referred to the novel "a masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking ..."