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Seamus Heaney Bloody Sunday Poem

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Marie-Louise Muir | 18:39 UK time, Tuesday, 22 June 2010


In 1972 Seamus Heaney drove from his home in Belfast to DerryÌýon the day of the funerals of the 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday.ÌýThe late Luke Kelly of the Dubliners later asked Heaney to write him a song about his feelings on the journey.ÌýHeaney wrote .
It wasn't published until 1997 when Heaney gave it to the Derry Journal to mark the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.ÌýIt's just beenÌýre-published in a special edition of the same newspaper.Ìý
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