On the last Sunday of July (Reek Sunday), devout pilgrims follow his original route, traditionally without shoes.
There is no reek of nostalgia about it, no sense that Mr Heaney is repeating himself.
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If you think that junk shot and top hat reek of desperation, well maybe so.
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Even now, in Tate Modern, it makes the gallery reek in a most distressing way.
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Or they scheme to implement union card check rules that reek of corruption and betray democratic ideals.
They sort of reek of sacrifice and it's not something that the Bush administration has often called for.
They found it hard to accustom themselves to the constant eye-watering reek of horse hair and human sweat.
In every culture, "foreigners" eat strange meals that have strange aromas, and their bodies reek of their strange food.
Calls for consolidation reek of elitists exploiting crises to ossify recalcitrant patriotic fissures.
Some football players who habitually point heavenward after a touchdown reek of insincerity.
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Even Dimmitt switched from a pipe to cigarettes when he was working with youngsters so he wouldn't reek so much.
Decades later, the devoted took part in annual pilgrimages up the mountain, similar to those held on Reek Sunday on nearby Croagh Patrick.
He said studies of microbes in ice above Lake Vostok remained "contentious" because of the issue over kerosene - of which the Vostok cores are said to "reek".
Smoking is supposedly prohibited in Beijing taxis but most of them reek of cigarettes anyway, since no taxi driver is going to pick a fight with a customer who lights up.
It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.
"The movement toward kindergarten readiness assessment has been a little bit of a challenge for the field over time, in that people are very concerned that it's going to reek of the kinds of assessments that are injurious to very, very young children, " said Sharon Lynn Kagan, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University who specializes in policies and standards for young children.
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