Irish Country Life | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

When Seamus Heaney began writing poetry in the 1960s Ireland was moving into the modern era, but it was to memories of growing up on a small rural farm in the 1940s that Heaney turned for poetic inspiration. The pictures he paints for us in his poetry gives us a window into a lost world of threshing and thatching, of horse ploughing and butter churning.