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Title: A03 Context about the Poet Seamus Heaney
Description: These notes are for AS Level English Literature. They are for studying poetry and are useful when looking for any context that could boost your grades.
Description: These notes are for AS Level English Literature. They are for studying poetry and are useful when looking for any context that could boost your grades.
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Heaney's birth-death
1939-2013
Heaney's place of birth County Derry, Northern Ireland
Heaney's religion
Catholic
Field Work was published in
1979
Heaney's wife was
Marie Devlin
Met and married?
1962, 1965
Prize? Won Nobel Prize for Literature 1995
Long period of conflict in Ireland is called
The Troubles
Dates of The Troubles 1968-1998
How did The Troubles end?
Signing of the Good Friday Agreement
Bloody Sunday happened on
January 30th, 1972
Casualties of Bloody Sunday?
13 on the day, another a few months after
Heaney's second cousin was called
Colum McCartney was killed
Colum McCartney
In a sectarian attack, 1975
The elegy for Colum McCartney is called 'The Strand at Lough Beg'
Louis O'Neill was
An eel fisherman who drank in Heaney's in-laws' pub
Louis O'Neill died
In a bombing 3 days after Bloody Sunday
The elegy for Louis O'Neill is called
Sean Armstrong was
Friend of Heaney, shot in forehand
The elegy for Sean is called
David Hammond was
'Casualty'
'A Postcard From North Antrim'
A good friend of Heaney
Title: A03 Context about the Poet Seamus Heaney
Description: These notes are for AS Level English Literature. They are for studying poetry and are useful when looking for any context that could boost your grades.
Description: These notes are for AS Level English Literature. They are for studying poetry and are useful when looking for any context that could boost your grades.