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Poems of Bloody Sunday: Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Deane
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Saturday July 03, 2010 10:17 by John O'Leary in the grave
.... and Seamus Heaney's effort Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen was written after the publication of the British Government's Widgery Tribunal Report in 1972. Here he is reading the poem and talking about it. The text of the poem is available here: And, to round off, a well-crafted effort by Seamus Heaney, which indicates how Heaney became a favoured poet of the self-satisfied southern middle class, who ran scared from the north in the 1970s. The Heaney poem comes with explanatory context. Deane's poem does not seem to be otherwise available online. ". . . You're mother's been killed by the Armee-e, Doo da, doo da" (voice singing). Static . . . "Return fire . . . Aim pistol lower regions . . Roger, Wilco. Out." . . . Static . . . (sound of shot) . . "Yoo-hoo! Well done! Keep it up." . . . more static . . . "I said shoot for lower regions . . . the balls" . . . "Over" . . . http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/mad.htm Readers can judge whether Kinsella and Deane or Heaney's contribution will stand the test of time.....
Thomas Kinsell reads his Butcher's Dozen poem on Bloody Sunday Thomas Kinsell reads his Butcher's Dozen poem on Bloody Sunday 3.4 Mb Kinsell talks about his Butcher's Dozen poem - from Bowman Sunday, RTE Radio One, 20 June 2010 Kinsell talks about his Butcher's Dozen poem - from Bowman Sunday, RTE Radio One, 20 June 2010 1.24 Mb |
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