Seamus Heaney - Desert Island Discs - Sun 19 Nov 1989

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  • This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Seamus Heaney, a Catholic Ulsterman who has been acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats. He was recently elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic rural childhood as the eldest of nine children, his transition to university life and the sources of his poetic inspiration.
    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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  • @VousEtre
    @VousEtre ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So well spoken. Effortlessly erudite. Nothing to prove. Thoroughly enjoyed getting to know him a bit through this. Thanks for posting!

  • @insitetoursirelandltd.5795
    @insitetoursirelandltd.5795 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Met and had many happy encounters with this amazing fellow Bellaghy man. A human being first, an intellectual second and an Ulsterman third. Plummy british Sue Lawley sounds secondary to this genius of the English language. Missed every day for his candour and intellect and his humility.

  • @patdoyle3686
    @patdoyle3686 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lovely man⭐ you can hear the kindness⭐ in his every word ⭐

  • @kieransavage3835
    @kieransavage3835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Magnificent portrait of Seamus....

  • @eunicelynch3511
    @eunicelynch3511 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh Seamus..how precious to have a window to your heart..
    Thank you thank you..I know your no longer with us there was never enough time..come back to us when you .....

  • @lindsayberry6841
    @lindsayberry6841 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    What a wonderful man, apart from his genius he was full of humanity

  • @MrRicey80
    @MrRicey80 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    😍 Could listen all day.

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605
    @sherlockholmeslives.1605 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If I was to choose one book, I think I would include 'Exploring The Earth and Moon' by Patrick Moore ( 1923 - 2012 ).
    Although it is written for a juvenile audience, I think it expresses with clarity and precision our home planet and nearest neighbour world in space, and encourages the mind to wonder at what we are so familiar with, the Earth and moon, with joy and imagination, and compels us to see delight and wonder in what we see around us.

  • @glenncambray626
    @glenncambray626 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice to hear the name of Gerard Manley Hopkins mentioned.

  • @marjoriewoodward822
    @marjoriewoodward822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great met him once Lovely cosy man. Love his poetry,,

  • @paulmcghee8180
    @paulmcghee8180 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad was slightly older than him, grew up in the same town of Castledawson. Would have been a nightmare for them both growing up there.

  • @helenmassey8134
    @helenmassey8134 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    wish i could meet a man like this one

    • @dennisoconnor8106
      @dennisoconnor8106 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Emerson wrote: The best way to plan a man is think him so. Thanks for your remark.

  • @michaelgildea4119
    @michaelgildea4119 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Michael Gildea. The generosity of spirit of he describes was hugely evident in the years I lived in the Ballinvard , Rossmore. What a pleasure that time was.

  • @thesiluresscribe567
    @thesiluresscribe567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The man whose pages thank the trees for their paper. 'Humanity' is the word @lindsay berry. Heany was a literary gymnast! Not to mention the shamanic depth of the his work. His words both sparkle and jarr in all of the right places.

  • @keshabhira8334
    @keshabhira8334 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    fabulous.

  • @stephencarlin5719
    @stephencarlin5719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    'to help in human and sacred learning'

  • @joemoroney1
    @joemoroney1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That voice though

    • @Acarrdi
      @Acarrdi ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean?

  • @apexxxx10
    @apexxxx10 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    kiitos

  • @sunnivaobrien9722
    @sunnivaobrien9722 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Rath Dé ort a Sheamus.

  • @dhss333
    @dhss333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A truly great poet who kept his natural humility - greater than Yeats.

  • @SeamasMcSwiney
    @SeamasMcSwiney ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seamus Heaney - Digging - Centre Culturel Irlandais June 13 2013 th-cam.com/video/wDAChlcYRqg/w-d-xo.html

  • @dhss333
    @dhss333 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A greater poet than Yeats.

  • @dhss333
    @dhss333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Greater than Yeates, more solid, less ephemeral.

    • @JohnHillEU
      @JohnHillEU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Why do we need to order them in a hierarchy?

    • @dhss333
      @dhss333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnHillEU Why wld. you not order anything in a qualitative hierarchy of good better best?

    • @chrisjohnson9981
      @chrisjohnson9981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dhss333 only in an extreme lefty "there are to be no winners"

    • @ben-ow3ow
      @ben-ow3ow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dhss333 because it is impossible to measure poetry qualitatively

  • @timb6177
    @timb6177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And to think the shallowness that is Lauren ‘intimate gig’ Laverne is now doing Desert Islands Discs... awful

    • @chrisjohnson9981
      @chrisjohnson9981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and the shallowness of the language and the concepts discussed!

    • @HkFinn83
      @HkFinn83 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh come on, you don’t want to listen to a tv actor talking about how shewaddywaddy moves them?