Sinead Morrissey supplement

Watch Sinead Morrissey reading "Through the Square Window."

Ciaran Carson supplement

Ciaran Carson recently published a short poem called "The Tag" in the New Yorker.

Read about him in an interview by the Guardian, a British newspaper, to learn what Belfast Confetti really is and about Carson's tie to Belfast.

Michael Longley supplement

Watch Michael Longley read "Ceasefire." He explains the poem in advance and dedicates it to Seamus Heaney, both of whom are pictured above.

You can also see his office and read an interview with him by Dr. Margaret Mills Harper, a professor from Georgia State University.

Hungry for more? Hear recordings he made reading his poetry.

Derek Mahon supplement II

Loved "Thinking of Inis Oirr in Cambridge, Mass."? The man he dedicated it to, Eamon Grennan, is reading next Tuesday, April 6 at Emory!


Inis Mor is the largest of the three Aran islands. Inis Oirr is the smallest. Can you see the limestone?

W.B. Yeats is also known for his early poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." He was nostalgic for the west of Ireland from his residency in London. How do you think these two poems use memory as consolation? What does it mean to desire a place from a position of exile, however chosen that exile may be?

Derek Mahon supplement

This is the first follow up to discussion from April 1 on Derek Mahon.

Read "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats and compare the stone imagery in this poem to what we saw in "Spring in Belfast." Additionally, how does Yeats's questioning contrast against Mahon's "casual pity"?

Derek Mahon also is noted for his ties to his predecessor, W.H. Auden (1907-1973).

The Troubles

Want more information on the Troubles? Check out this informational website put together by the BBC.

Seamus Heaney

Read "Funeral Rites," "Bog Queen," "The Grauballe Man," "Punishment," and "Act of Union" from North.

Then watch these videos of additional Heaney poems for Tuesday, March 30.

"The Road to Derry" on Bloody Sunday with archival video of the road, burial, and memorial

"Digging" montage of archival footage

"The Tollund Man" recitation and video montage

Bloody Sunday in Selma

Read this article on Selma's Bloody Sunday when you get a chance over Spring Break and remember to read the two selections from Black and Green I handed out to prepare for our history week on Northern Ireland.