Ango-Irish Conflict III

The Anglo Irish Conflict
Poems about the conflict between the English and the Irish
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The Anglo Irish Conflict
Poems about the conflict between the English and the Irish

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War & Peace
Beowulf -  Anglo-Saxon Period
World War I Poets  
Anglo-Irish Conflict 

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William Butler Yeats (1888) = Victorian
U2 (1982) & Seamus Heaney (1981) = Postmodern
Anglo-Irish poetry

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Road map
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Casualty
  • Work on assignments

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lesson goals
At the end of class you can
  • understand the contents of 'Casualty'
  • link it to the life of the poet Seamus Heaney 
  • compare and contrast it to the other poems in this part of the course

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Seamus Heaney
1939 - 2013

Catholic from co. Derry

mid. 1970s to Republic of Ireland

Nobel Prize for Literature 1995

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The Troubles
  • Northern Ireland 
  • the late 1960s - the Good Friday Agreement in 1998
  • sectarian violence and political strife between the Catholic and Protestant communities.

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Explain the background of the conflict in Northern Ireland and introduce the concept of The Troubles.
Bloody Sunday
  • 30 January 1972
  •  Civil Rights Protest in Bogside, (London)derry
  • Protest against a new NI law 
  • stones were thrown at the army
  • 13 protesters were shot dead
  • at least 15 others injured

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Explain the background of the conflict in Northern Ireland and introduce the concept of The Troubles.
Casualty
Elegy

a sad poem or song, especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past

(Cambridge Dictionary)

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Casualty
Set: Ulster, 1972

Speaker: Mr Heaney, remembering a friend, Louis O'Neill

introduced in first stanza


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Casualty
2nd stanza: relationship speaker and O'Neill

O'Neill: shot dead 3 days after BS 
(2 Feb 1972)

II The day of Mr O'Neill's death
III The day of Mr OŃeill's funeral

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Do 
What kind of picture does each work paint in relation to the conflict at hand? 

Describe in your own words. Refer to the poems in your answer.

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Perspectives
W.B. Yeats  - 

The Lake Isle of Innishfree

Us - Bloody Sunday

Seamus Heaney - Casualty

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Do 
Assignments

test on 12 February 2025

Assignments to be finished before then

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