OscailtPoems of Bloody Sunday: Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Deane.... and Seamus Heaney's effort
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In an interview in the book ‘Stepping Stones – Interviews with Seamus Heaney’ by Dennis O’Driscoll, he says that that on the night when Francis Hughes's body was returned from the jail to his family, he was staying in Oxford University in rooms that belonged to a British Cabinet Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government. <br />
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In some ways, Heaney has always been an acceptable face of Irish culture for a British audience. His night between the sheets in Keith Joseph's well appointed rooms at Oxford, while Francis Hughes (who he still describes as a "hit man") was lying dead in his parent's front room is, he admits himself, emblematic. Heaney published half a poem he wrote on Bloody Sunday 25 years laterhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/97120#comment2710562010-07-04T10:26:32+00:00Niall MeehanIn its 15 June 2001 edition the Derry Journal published the attached article rev...In its 15 June 2001 edition the Derry Journal published the attached article revealing that Seamus Heaney had written a poem at the request of Luke Kelly of the Dubliners in 1972. Heaney told the Derry Journal this in a letter in 1997.<br />
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The poem was written in 1972 on the day of the funerals of the Bloody Sunday victims. Heaney released half the poem in 1997 on the 25th anniversary of the massacres and, perhaps more significantly, three years after the IRA ceasefire. I wonder what is in the other half. Perhaps now, after the Saville Report has been released, Heaney might consider releasing the remainder for posterity.<br />
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The pages are from the Derry Journal's special edition on Bloody Sunday - it can be read in full here:<br />
<a href="http://issuu.com/derryjournal/docs/savillereport/28?mode=a_p" title="http://issuu.com/derryjournal/docs/savillereport/28?mode=a_p">http://issuu.com/derryjournal/docs/savillereport/28?mod...e=a_p</a><br />
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Also attached, a page on Bloody Sunday in popular culture.<br />
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Seamus Heaney's half poem as tourist guidehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/97120#comment2710582010-07-04T11:33:34+00:00Niall MeehanA video interpretation of Seamus Heaney's poem The Road to Derry. Produced for a...A video interpretation of Seamus Heaney's poem The Road to Derry. Produced for an interactive tourist guide for Derry City Council