A young Seamus Heaney meets a pagan Irish god in 1972. I love listening to his mellifluous Ulster English.
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1972: SEAMUS HEANEY Meets a PAGAN GOD | Ulster in Focus | Writers & Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
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March 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A young Seamus Heaney meets a pagan Irish god in 1972. I love listening to his mellifluous Ulster English.
youtu.be/DSpoPBb8LAg?...
#SeamusHeaney #Ulster #LoughErne #BoaIsland #Celticgods #poetry #poet #pagangods #celticchristianity
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#SeamusHeaney #Ulster #LoughErne #BoaIsland #Celticgods #poetry #poet #pagangods #celticchristianity
A strange two-faced figure stands in a Fermanagh graveyard — carved in stone, older than memory, and still not really understood.
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A two-faced stone - the Boa Island figure
Boa Island carved stone figures
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July 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A strange two-faced figure stands in a Fermanagh graveyard — carved in stone, older than memory, and still not really understood.
New on the History Shorts blog:
🔗 historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-tw...
#history #IrishHistory #BoaIsland
New on the History Shorts blog:
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#history #IrishHistory #BoaIsland