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

[@BS-mz4in]

This was amazing. Full thing please!

[@DaraM73]

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

[@mikemcleanartist]

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

[@meijiturtle3814]

Yes please.

[@PEACEandQUIET999]

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

[@andrewheaney6858]

🍀🇦🇺

[@BoseBish]

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

[@mockingbirdarmada]

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]

All gods are fictions.

[@nickharvey7233]

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.

[@debracraine9350]

Awesome! Give us the whole program please.

[@VixxKong2]

He looks like a classic Rockstar

[@youwantshumshun.2867]

Looks like my cousin Gary Moore abit.

[@draganpetrovic1280]

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

[@martinbennett9578]

There goes a Irish Man!

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Paganism rules

[@stephenchappell7512]

check out Thomas Sheridan 👍

[@BS-mz4in]

Check out survive the jive.

[@ltipst2962]

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-]

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]

This short video is pure magic.

[@ctcurry1777]

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

[@BuckRolly1]

What about Islam?

[@ctcurry1777]

@@BuckRolly1 Islam is part of the abrahamic nonsense.

[@BS-mz4in]

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

[@THRACIA776ISTHEGREATEST]

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.

[@PEACEandQUIET999]

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

[@andrewheaney6858]

“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]

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

[@cauldronmoon]

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

[@colmgeiran3476]

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.

[@OlafProt]

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

[@ashpash2977]

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

[@irishjohn3528]

..a new God will destroy me...brilliant. RIP Séamus

[@c1v1lwar24]

Wonderful.

[@nullgravity2583]

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

[@jonharrison9222]

And in the real world?

[@jasonayres]

A bit 🤔 Stoney faced. Just not.. God enough.

[@henridelagardere264]

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

[@PNortRyan]

The snakes aka, the Druids.

[@emstonestreet]

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

[@JamesBarometer-jv9kk]

👽

[@jonharrison9222]

Or not.

[@draganpetrovic1280]

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

[@mike-myke22]

Thanks for posting.

[@draganpetrovic1280]

Seamus heaney R. I. P

[@JJToddy]

❤

[@شاد]

Hey, you reading this comment you are special

[@D-777i]

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]

What believe or die

[@realruffian]

By smashing the idols of pagans ..

[@D-777i]

@@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]

The trinity made perfect sense