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Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

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Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney became the finest poet of his generation and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, but his career coincided with one of the bloodiest political upheavals of the 20th century, the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Six years after Heaney's death in 2013, his wife Marie and his children talk about their family life and read some of the poems he wrote for them, and for the first time his four brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences that inspired many of his finest poems.

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Aoife O'Neil Film Ireland Magazine 4d
Heaney’s voice throughout the documentary takes over from the speaker and usually ends the poetry, again giving the viewer the unique opportunity to connect with both poem and writer as one entity. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Adam Low

Director

Seamus Heaney

Self

Martin Rosenbaum

Producer

Dermot Lavery

Producer

Michael Hewitt

Executive Producer

Joanna Crickmay

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Synopsis Born into a farming family in rural Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney became the finest poet of his generation and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, but his career coincided with one of the bloodiest political upheavals of the 20th century, the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Six years after Heaney's death in 2013, his wife Marie and his children talk about their family life and read some of the poems he wrote for them, and for the first time his four brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences that inspired many of his finest poems.
Director
Adam Low
Producer
Martin Rosenbaum, Dermot Lavery
Production Co
DoubleBand Films, BBC Two Films
Genre
Biography, Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 27m