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Seamus Heaney RIP

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  • #62
    Erinfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    Seamus Heaney, a widely celebrated Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, died at a hospital in Dublin on Friday after a short illness, according to a statement issued on behalf of his family. He was 74. Mr. Heaney, who was born in Northern Ireland but moved to Dublin in his later years, is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and his children, Christopher, Michael and Catherine Ann.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/arts/seamus-heaney-acclaimed-irish-poet-dies-at-74.html?emc=edit_na_20130830&_r=0


  • #63
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    Shocked!

    Don't think anyone would have went to school without learning a poem of his.


  • #64
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Shocked!

    Don't think anyone would have went to school without learning a poem of his.

    Sarcasm right?

    I don't understand the big hullaballo at all, he was a poet right, so what? I'd hazard a guess that 95% of Irish people never read one of his poems (me included) - EVER !

    Ordinary Joes don't read Seamus Heaney poems

    All over the bloody news :mad:


  • #65
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Spike Milligan and Seamus Heaney. Along with Gabriel Rosenstock, they make up the three pillars of Irish poetry in school.

    Two of them sadly missed.


  • #66
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Seamus Heaney was one of the main reasons I started giving a shit about poetry. RIP Seamus.


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  • #67
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Sarcasm right?

    I don't understand the big hullaballo at all, he was a poet right, so what? I'd hazard a guess that 95% of Irish people never read one of his poems (me included) - EVER !

    Ordinary Joes don't read Seamus Heaney poems

    All over the bloody news :mad:

    Well since his poems were on the curriculum in school I'd say a lot less than 95% have never read one of his poems :/

    I don't see a problem with a Nobel winning Irish poet making the Irish news...


  • #68
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Sarcasm right?

    I don't understand the big hullaballo at all, he was a poet right, so what? I'd hazard a guess that 95% of Irish people never read one of his poems - EVER !

    All over the bloody news :mad:
    Seriously?

    Plus was also a Nobel Laureate, kind of a big deal that!


  • #69
    MadYaker
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    There is already a thread for this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057027918


  • #70
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    lahalane wrote: »
    Well since his poems were on the curriculum in school I'd say a lot less than 95% have never read one of his poems :/

    I don't see a problem with a Nobel winning Irish poet making the Irish news...

    Ok ok, 90% so


  • #71
    coconut5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭coconut5


    vicwatson wrote: »

    All over the bloody news :mad:

    I don't understand why that annoys you so much...


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  • #72
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Amazed he was so young.

    He looked 75 the day I served him a whiskey in Belfast 20 years ago!


  • #73
    ceruleanblue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭ceruleanblue


    seamus wrote: »
    Spike Milligan and Seamus Heaney. Along with Gabriel Rosenstock, they make up the three pillars of Irish poetry in school.

    Two of them sadly missed.

    Gabriel Rosenstock. Now there's a man hugely underrated in our society. I don't get his haiku stuff (yet) but I could listen to the man speaking Irish for eternity. He used to have the last 30 minutes on RnaG all to himself years back when RnaG closed down at 7.30pm each night. He makes the words dance!


  • #74
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Ok ok, 90% so

    Are we heckling? Ok, I'll start with a ridiculous figure too in the hope that we can meet somewhere in the middle at something satisfactory. 0%.


  • #75
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    WindSock wrote: »
    A 74 foot box is going to be difficult to muster up though.
    RIP to one of Irelands greatest ambassadors of conscience.
    The squat pen now rests

    I found this treatment of Digging by some Qatari students, it seems to be his voice.


    Mid term break, a poem of personal significance
    He's now with his brother and other poets.


  • #76
    Erinfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    seamus wrote: »
    Spike Milligan and Seamus Heaney. Along with Gabriel Rosenstock, they make up the three pillars of Irish poetry in school.

    Two of them sadly missed.


    Ireland relatively to its size have contributed immensely and disproportionately to world literature.

    I suppose due its history produce the best authors of hearbreaking novels or poems.

    I have in mind James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.


  • #77
    ceruleanblue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭ceruleanblue


    Watching clips of him on RTÉ Six-One News now it's hard to believe he is no more in this world. They showed a clip of him a few months ago talking away. Very raw and makes you think about how delicate each of our lives is.

    74 is young. It really is. 50 years ago it wasn't. Now, it definitely is young, or at least it isn't an age somebody is expected to be dying at. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.


  • #78
    Mr Tibbs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Mr Tibbs


    Between my finger and my thumb. Gone now to the company of all the great poets, he will in time be regarded as one of the best. RIP.


  • #79
    CastingCouch
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    Honey-ec wrote: »
    Ah here, 74 isn't exactly one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin territory.

    A great loss to literature. The man was an exquisite wordsmith.

    Ah here, leave it out.


  • #80
    ceruleanblue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭ceruleanblue


    Not to ruin things, but do those few misguided people who claim Irish people born in the North are not Irish - such as here - make exceptions for people like Séamus Heaney, Stephen Rea, Liam Neeson and the like? You bet they do.

    The hypocrisy is as almost as obnoxious as the denial of Irishness to these clearly very Irish people.


  • #81
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Shocked!

    Don't think anyone would have went to school without learning a poem of his.

    Depends how old you are. I did the Leaving in '87 and Heaney sadly wasn't on it. Only started to read his stuff properly after he won the Nobel Prize. Never believed that we would turn out a poet as good as Kavanagh but I'm glad to have found out that we did.


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  • #82
    wonderfullife
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    RIP iconic Irish figure. Yeats of our era. Won't see the like of him again for a generation or 2.

    Not really looking to start a big debate but it's slightly sad to see this thread has less posts today than "Not enough black kids in GAA" and less thanks than the story about the girlfriend shagging "Mr X".

    I still have hope for us but it grows forlorn.


  • #83
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    I knew there was going to be trouble when Aaron Ramsey scored two goals the other day.

    I think it's fair to say that we lost one of the literary greats today. Ar dheis dhé go raibh a hainm


  • #84
    keelanj69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    ceruleanblue wrote: »
    Watching clips of him on RTÉ Six-One News now it's hard to believe he is no more in this world. They showed a clip of him a few months ago talking away. Very raw and makes you think about how delicate each of our lives is.

    74 is young. It really is. 50 years ago it wasn't. Now, it definitely is young, or at least it isn't an age somebody is expected to be dying at. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

    I think that might be stretching it a bit.


  • #85
    OldRio
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    RIP
    A true master of his craft.


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
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    RIP, a great poet, said a lot with only a few words.


  • #87
    Aineoil
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    Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Beidh sé mar mar sholas na bhfláitheas anois.

    One of my favourite poets. He was a genius with words. A true gentleman.


  • #88
    getzls
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    Did he do any think that rhymed?

    Any one can put a lot of ****e down like a story and call it a poem.


  • #89
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    getzls wrote: »
    Did he do any think that rhymed?

    Any one can put a lot of ****e down like a story and call it a poem.

    this doesn't scan.


  • #90
    coconut5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭coconut5


    getzls wrote: »
    Did he do any think that rhymed?

    Any one can put a lot of ****e down like a story and call it a poem.

    Between my finger and my thumb
    The squat pen rests, snug as a gun


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  • #91
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,956 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    A truly superb poet that had a fantastic way of using words.

    RIP Seamus Heaney.


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