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Podcast
- BBC Radio Ulster (2013). Remembering Seamus Heaney. Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/remembering-seamus-heaney/id766477506?mt=2
A compilation of our special weekend of programming remembering the life and work of Seamus Heaney. We visit many of the places which played a key role in informing his work.
Introduction
Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. (Britannica, 2015)
Seamus Heaney
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Various interviews with Seamus Heaney reading some of his works at various times. 1. Seamus Heaney; 2. English poetry ; 3. Poets
Biography
- Poetry Foundation. Retrieved http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/seamus-heaneySeamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century.A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies.
- Seamus Heaney. (2015). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/39707Seamus Heaney, in full Seamus Justin Heaney , (born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland—died August 30, 2013, Dublin, Ireland), Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
- Cole H. (1994). The Paris Review. Retrieved from http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1217/the-art-of-poetry-no-75-seamus-heaneyBorn in County Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1939, Seamus Heaney was the eldest of nine children in a Catholic family. After receiving a degree in English from Queen's University in 1961, Heaney worked as a school teacher, then for several years as a freelancer.
Critical Reviews
- Pargetter, D. (2014). Opened ground. Retrieved from http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/2181/1168552/VATE.pdfThe collection in Opened Ground begins with earthy poems of rural Ireland, based on Heaney's youth in the rural north.
- Canfield Reisman. R M. (2011). Seamus Heaney Essay - Critical Essays. Retrieved from http://www.enotes.com/topics/seamus-heaney/critical-essays.Almost from the beginning of his poetic career, Seamus Heaney gained public recognition for poems rooted deep in the soil of Northern Ireland and flowering in subtle rhythms and nuanced verbal melodies.
- Heaney, S. & Vendler, H. (1996). Poetry: Seamus Heaney. The Wilson Quartlerly, 20(1), 93-100. Retrieved from JSTOR.The Wilson Quarterly provides a nonpartisan and nonideological window on the world of ideas. In this article Helen Vendler introduces selected poems from Seamus Heaney.
- Requiem for the croppies. (.n.d.). Retrieved from https://shorttexts.wikispaces.com/Requiem+for+the+Croppies.This poem is redolent of all the things that make us Irish. Our capacity to endure. Our unquenchable spirit and the resurrection image of the barley all relate to the images in my psyche anyway.
- Brietner, D. (2012). Requiem for the Croppies. Retrieved from https://dustinbreitner.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/requiem-for-the-croppies/In the poem, Requiem for the Croppies, Seamus Heaney, the author, describes the brutal conditions endured by the Irish soldiers during the war of independence.
- McMahon, D. (2013). A quick reading of Seamus Heaney’s “Requiem for the Croppies”. Retrieved from https://pulpteacher.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/a-quick-reading-of-seamus-heaneys-requiem-for-the-croppies/As we close in on St. Patrick’s Day, here is a lovely sonnet from Seamus Heaney with a brief explication de texte. Read it out loud, please–I won’t listen–and then go on.
- Queens University Belfast. (2014). Seamus Heaney: A conference and commemoration 10-13 April, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/SeamusHeaneyConference2014/FileStore/Filetoupload,442100,en.pdfThe Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast is hosting a major international conference to honour Seamus Heaney from 10th-13th April 2014.
- Seamus Heaney – bog poems. Retrieved from http://exagminations.tripod.com/id39.htmlHeaney’s early poems can be seen as fundamentally concerned with childhood, and with the horrors as well as the wonders of nature, drawing the reader into a world full of "the smells/of waterweed, fungus and dank moss", to look into places where ‘there is no reflection’ – poetry which is also an exploration that aims ‘to set the darkness echoing’.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1995
- Heaney. S. (1995). The Nobel prize in literature 1995. Retrieved from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-lecture.htmlThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".
Xavier College Poems and Notes
- Xavier College. (n.d.). Seamus Heaney notes. Retrieved from http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/2181/1168553/118Xavier_Notes.pdfA collection of Seamus Heaney poems and notes from Xavier College.
- Wallace-Crabbe. C. (n.d.). Seamus at the Crypt, Xavier. Retrieved from http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/2181/1168556/Heaney_Wallace-Crabbe.pdfI am here to say a little about my fellow poet and jovial companion, Seamus Heaney.
Connecting with Seamus Heaney
- Fawbett, D. (n.d.). Connecting with Seamus Heaney. Retrieved from http://fawbie.com.David Fawbett enjoyed the challenge of connecting with Seamus Heaney's messages, both manifest and veiled, so much that, as a former Modern Language teacher in Secondary Education, he felt that students of Seamus Heaney might appreciate the set approach towards individual poems that would help them unravel both content and style.