Ango-Irish Conflict III

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The Anglo Irish Conflict

Poems about the conflict between the English and the Irish

War & Peace

Beowulf -  Anglo-Saxon Period

World War I Poets  

Anglo-Irish Conflict 

William Butler Yeats (1888) = Victorian

U2 (1982) & Seamus Heaney (1981) = Postmodern

Anglo-Irish poetry

Road map

• Seamus Heaney
• Casualty
• Work on assignments

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

Seamus Heaney

1939 - 2013

Catholic from co. Derry

mid. 1970s to Republic of Ireland

Nobel Prize for Literature 1995

(Mr Yeats - 1923)

The Troubles

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

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

Bloody Sunday

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-47433319

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)

Casualty

Set: Ulster, 1972

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

introduced in first stanza

Casualty read by Seamus Heaney

https://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/audio/heaney/casualty.mp3

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

Casualty read by Seamus Heaney

https://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/audio/heaney/casualty.mp3

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.

Perspectives

W.B. Yeats  - 

The Lake Isle of Innishfree

Us - Bloody Sunday

Seamus Heaney - Casualty

Do 

Assignments

test on 12 February 2025

Assignments to be finished before then

Strands

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Squaredle

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