Let me add a handy link to this SIX YEAR OLD THREAD (wow):
http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t03i.html
It's a page from RTE (the Irish TV network), with clips from 1979 - interviews with Benedict Kiely, the first person to see the finished poem, and in interview with Hilda Moriarty (the woman in the poem):
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sj