LibGuides: SEAMUS HEANEY: Heaney in Context

Heaney in Context

An Interview with Seamus Heaney
On the eve of his 70th birthday, Seamus Heaney tells The Telegraph's Sameer Rahim about his lifetime in poetry – and who he thinks would make a good poet laureate
BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 Yeats & Heaney - a terrible beauty
The Nobel Lecture

The troubles in Northern Ireland

Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads one of his most famous poems about the Northern Irish troubles - 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' in a Channel 4 News recording from 1999.

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpDw5n_rb5I

"On 30 January 1972, a civil rights demonstration through the streets of Londonderry in north-west Northern Ireland ended with the shooting dead of thirteen civilians by the British Army. An official government inquiry began two weeks later but was widely considered a whitewash, leading to a fresh public inquiry in 1998 that took 12 years to report and absolved the victims of blame." http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/bloody_sunday

SOURCE : YouTube, The Troubles (Northern Ireland) - Bloody Sunday, (2009), Duration 3:00, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cr-iWFXNw

From the BBC - a comprehensive site - click on image above.