Tag Archives: Uí Éanaí
Seamus Heaney and the Irish Language (Cuid a Trí as Trí) Posted by róislín on Sep 22, 2013
(le Róislín) The previous two blogs in this “mionsraith” discussed Seamus Heaney’s use of Irish in writing poetry in English. We discussed the Irish titles of some of his poems (e.g. “Aisling,” “Maighdean Mara“) and the implied Irish in “The Backward Look,” where he incorporates folk expressions for “snipe” into the body of a poem…
Séamus Ó hÉanaí / Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) Posted by róislín on Sep 6, 2013
(le Róislín) Numerous tributes have been written in memory of Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s premier poet of the mid/late 20th- and early 21st-century, who passed away on August 30. The facts of his biography are too well known to be entered in detail here, but I will highlight a few key points, i nGaeilge, which may also…