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Interview with Seamus Heaney by David Hanly for RTE Hanly’s People in 1989

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Video interview with Seamus Heaney, poet, by David Hanly in 1989 for RTE television programme Hanly’s People. Heaney is interviewed only months after the Provisional IRA renewed its campaign in Britain. He discusses a diverse series of topics during the interview, among them community divisions in Northern Ireland, the Civil Rights movement and the depiction of peace and violence through the arts. Hanly’s People was a short television series on RTE in the 1980s on which significant public figures were interviewed about their life, career and contemporary society.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 10 April 1989

Name of First Interviewee: Seamus Heaney

Role at time of Interview: Poet

Interviewer: David Hanly

Purpose: Research

Media: Audio

Copyright: © RTÉ 2012

Link: Listen to the interview

Programme/Book/Article: Hanly’s People

Time Period covered: 1939-1989

Key Individuals: Seamus Heaney

Key Words: B-Specials, religion, community relations, Provisional IRA, Civil Rights movement, the arts

 

 

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