Seamus Heaney News, Pictures & Buzz

Seven reasons not to give up on poetry  BBC News

St. Columb's Principal Finbar Madden says school community in mourning over death of old boy John Hume  Derry Journal

After Normal People's Emmy Nominations, Perceptions Misalign with Reality  The University Times

A politician blessed with all the gifts Politics John Hume was blessed with an extraordinary mix  RTE.ie

Diversification key for this Burren-based dairy farming family  Agriland

It’s impossible not to be buoyed by spirit which put Derry on the map  Derry Journal

Review, Barry Hill’s Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018  The Australian

Interview: Fontaines DC (Ireland) chat A Hero's Death, life in lockdown, and working with Aidan Gillen  the AU review

Walcott in New York | by Caryl Phillips  The New York Review of Books

Manchester academics elected as Fellows of the British Academy  The University of Manchester

Dublin can be (cultural) heaven  The Irish Times

Communities Minister visits Heaney HomePlace - Derry Now  Derry Now

Whiteabbey sculptor was internationally recognised for work with famous faces  Portadown Times

Cork Chamber launches Cork Digital Marketing Awards 2020  EchoLive.ie

Staycations 2020: Take your pick from these great things to do in Ulster  Irish Examiner

Newly revamped centre celebrates Kavanagh's genius  Anglo Celt

Staycations 2020: Take your pick from these great things to do in Ulster  Irish Examiner

Rhyme is money as Seamus Heaney estate records profit  The Times

Seamus Heaney’s Journey Into Darkness  The Atlantic

Seamus Heaney and the dullness of “Grey Cement”…  Slugger O'Toole

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EmmaGallaghe2: Seamus Heaney walk at Devil's Glen, even got our toes wet. https://t.co/y8jeCxUxki

My coursework for English this year is a comparison of two Heaney poems and two Duffy poems, linked to the theme of Shame. I have been given 'Summer Home' as one of my poems, it is an interesting poem but I am struggling to understand it and how to link it to shame. If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful!!

im doing an english project on seamus heaney, and i need to know what job he has held, and when he held them. i promise 10 points to the best answer, thanks a mil x

How could the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, be called a poet of the past and of the present in relation to the poems he has wrote, 'The Forge' and 'The Skunk'. Please answer

The Wife's Tale When I had spread it all on linen cloth Under the hedge, I called them over. The hum and gulp of the thresher ran down And the big belt slewed to a standstill, straw Hanging undelivered in the jaws. There was such quiet that I heard their boots Crunching the stubble twenty yards away. He lay down and said, 'Give these fellows theirs, I'm in no hurry,' plucking grass in handfuls And tossing it in the air. 'That looks well.' (He nodded at my white cloth on the grass.) 'I declare a woman could lay out a field Though boys like us have little call for cloths.' He winked, then watched me as I poured a cup And buttered the thick slices that he likes. 'It's threshing better than I thought, and mid It's good clean seed. Away over there and look.' Always this inspection has to be made Even when I don't know what to look for. But I ran my hand in the half-filled bags Hooked to the slots. It was hard as shot, Innumerable and cool. The bags gaped Where the chutes ran back to the stilled drum And forks were stuck at angles in the ground As javelins might mark lost battlefields. I moved between them back across the stubble. They lay in the ring of their own crusts and dregs, Smoking and saying nothing. 'There's good yield, Isn't there?' --as proud as if he were the land itself-- 'Enough for crushing and sowing both.' And that was it. I'd come and he had shown me, So I belonged no further to the work. I gathered cups and folded up the cloth And went. But they still kept their ease, Spread out, unbuttoned, grateful, under the trees. *What does it mean? Is there a deeper meaning? Is the any rhythem or figurative language? What does the title have to do with the rest of the poem?

if you were to answer these questions, how would you answer? i don't want fully answered but the important bits that i can add in these? 1. discuss seamus Heaneys poetry in the light of this statement? 2. Haney's poetry celebrates traditional crafts. in this chosen craft of poetry, Heaney too is a master craftsman give your opinion of this assessment of Heaney's poetry? 3. the celebration of people and relationships in Heaney's poetry is characterised by honesty and tender-ism. discuss this statement. 4. Heaney's poetry transforms the ordinary into the extra ordinary, discuss this statement with reference to the poems you have studied. i only have to do one question out of this, but confused which one cause i don't even understand them