1972: SEAMUS HEANEY Meets a PAGAN GOD | Ulster in Focus | Writers & Wordsmiths

1972: SEAMUS HEANEY Meets a PAGAN GOD | Ulster in Focus | Writers & Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

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"When you take a boat out on the Erne waters, you voyage into time. The islands lie, like stepping stones, in the long river of our past."
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney explores the islands of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.
He encounters an ancient and mysterious stone statue on Boa Island and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like, before the arrival of Saint Patrick.
The monastic round tower of Devenish Island is a reminder of those early Christian missionaries who "startled the nature gods and put them to flight."
This is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders.
Originally broadcast 14 June, 1972.
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@ltipst2962 Жыл бұрын

You can imagine that there's libraries upon libraries lost that discussed folk lore over the thousands of years. Its kind of unbelievable. I wonder what we're yet to discover

@-nolan- 5 сағат бұрын

Not quite the case in Ireland. Unlike most cultures, Ireland have an oral culture so most mythology is told through stories and the land itself instead of being passed by books

@thecaveofthedead Жыл бұрын

This short video is pure magic.

@DaraM73 Жыл бұрын

Give us the rest of the film! Too important a thesis to chop up for entertainment.

@mikemcleanartist 10 ай бұрын

Hi, I love this I had no idea there was more!!! Can you please send me a link to see please? Thank you.

@meijiturtle3814 10 ай бұрын

Yes please.

@BS-mz4in Жыл бұрын

This was amazing. Full thing please!

@colmgeiran3476 8 ай бұрын

I recently brought a group of South American students to the SH museum in Dublin. They were deeply moved by Seamus' poetry. This video is beautiful. Thank you.

@PEACEandQUIET999 10 ай бұрын

found you through social ig. this is friggin electric - thankyou for posting-from the irish dispora in oz.

@andrewheaney6858 10 ай бұрын

🍀🇦🇺

@BoseBish Жыл бұрын

The druids and their culture is really fascinating! I believe in the old gods and the wisdom of nature. ❤

@mockingbirdarmada 10 ай бұрын

Which specific old gods? The old gods of one group were often antithetical to the others and considered illegitimate long before Christians showed up. The gods of the Gauls were not the gods of the Druids.

@jonharrison9222 5 ай бұрын

All gods are fictions.

@andrewheaney6858 10 ай бұрын

“They turned men’s minds from the earth to the heavens”, how profound ! and now in this new age of enlightenment comes the reality that the heavens and earth are the manifestations of a man’s mind! 🌅

@jonharrison9222 5 ай бұрын

Though his poetry does the opposite. Especially Death of A Naturalist.

@nickharvey7233 Жыл бұрын

Seamus Heaney- what a legend. Loved his poetry at school, and still do to this day. Fond memories of rowing training camps in the early 90s, near Devenish. We once stumbled across a heavily camouflaged, super-fast rib, filled with SBS soldiers, hiding in the reeds - back end of The Troubles, hopefully behind us now.

@cauldronmoon Жыл бұрын

I want to visit Boa Island. Seamus Heaeny is fascinating. I Boa island is gorgeous.❤

@mike-myke22 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting.

@debracraine9350 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Give us the whole program please.

@c1v1lwar24 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful.

@PEACEandQUIET999 10 ай бұрын

druids. what a time. we have become so cynical . need more of this world.

@draganpetrovic1280 4 ай бұрын

🇮🇪🍀The best poetry of modern Ireland... Seamus heaney on♥️

@VixxKong2 Жыл бұрын

He looks like a classic Rockstar

@youwantshumshun.2867 Жыл бұрын

Looks like my cousin Gary Moore abit.

@draganpetrovic1280 3 ай бұрын

Amazing... I love Ireland seamus heaney R. I. P

@draganpetrovic1280 4 ай бұрын

Seamus heaney R. I. P

@JJToddy Жыл бұрын

❤

@henridelagardere264 Ай бұрын

2:48 "I fear, a new god will destroy me."

@nullgravity2583 Жыл бұрын

Our folk will be brought back to the Dagdha. Back to the Old Ways and Gods.

@jonharrison9222 5 ай бұрын

And in the real world?

@martinbennett9578 Жыл бұрын

There goes a Irish Man!

@OlafProt Жыл бұрын

One day I’ll actually visit the Seamus Heaney Homeplace nr Belaghy, ffs I only live in Belfast 🙄 😂

@ashpash2977 Жыл бұрын

Omg no excuse! I’m from Bellaghy .. down that way about once a week from Belfast .. it’s only 45 minutes!! shorter than an episode of breaking bad ! 😂😂 get down that motorway

@emstonestreet Жыл бұрын

"I'm not saying it's aliens... but it's aliens."

@JamesBarometer-jv9kk 9 ай бұрын

👽

@jonharrison9222 5 ай бұрын

Or not.

@شاد 8 ай бұрын

Hey, you reading this comment you are special

@PNortRyan 2 күн бұрын

The snakes aka, the Druids.

@ctcurry1777 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff. The pagan gods were far superior to the abrahamic nonsense.

@BuckRolly1 Жыл бұрын

What about Islam?

@ctcurry1777 Жыл бұрын

@@BuckRolly1 Islam is part of the abrahamic nonsense.

@BS-mz4in Жыл бұрын

@@BuckRolly1 Islam is Abrahamic, so what do you think.

@THRACIA776ISTHEGREATEST Жыл бұрын

Not really, there's a reason pagan civilization was conquered by Abrahamic, and that's because it's more societal in nature. Pagan gods are more human, their followers can justify their unsocietal indulgences through the different gods, they simply aren't as demanding as Abrahamic ones. When the Abrahamic gods ask them to look to the heavens, what this truly embodies is the fact that the Abrahamic religions are state religions, they centralize power, through the symbiosis of priest and state, not only that but their books make clear moral demands, more strong, and all encompassing than that passed down through pagan morality, which does concern itself with societal value, and morality but not nearly as strongly. It was nature, and ''might means right'' that meant the pagan gods were conquered. The reason why you people are turning to these more tribal and human pagangods is because we are in a winter civilization, where the benefits of centralized worship are few and far between. Abrahamic gods, along with their spring societies will always be more succesfull, more powerful, and will conquer pagan civilization, or pagan gods within a civilization eventually.

@D-777i Жыл бұрын

I see Christianity as a progression of the Druid beliefs. It is said that they prophesied the coming of a saviour and this is one reason they generally seemed to adopt the new religion fairly easily.

@realruffian Жыл бұрын

What believe or die

@realruffian Жыл бұрын

By smashing the idols of pagans ..

@D-777i Жыл бұрын

@@realruffian Not sure that was the case initially, at least from what I've read. ("The Sun & The Cross" is a good book on this.) Of course I accept that many pagans were forced to adopt Christianity or face the sword!

@KingPhilipsRideshare 5 ай бұрын

The trinity made perfect sense