Violence and Words-A Poetry Tour Through the Troubles
This poetry walk takes you around major areas of Belfast that were impacted by the Troubles. Each echo clip is a short reading from a poem that is about an experience during the Troubles that relate to that particular area. Each echo also includes a short discussion of the poem and the way that it changes our understanding of how the Troubles changed communities. This poetry walk is intergenerational and also examines how Belfast is a relatively peaceful city today.
Instruction: The poetry walk has an introduction echo outside the Seamus Heaney Centre as well as an echo at the bottom of the Grosvenor Road that is designed to guide your experience on the walk.
All poems, newspaper articles and websites that are being discussed in this poetry walk are mentioned below:
Poems:
Sabine Wichert, ‘Belfast, 13th July,’ Belfast 13th july | Troubles Archive
Ciaran Carson, ‘Belfast Confetti,’ part of the collection ‘The Irish for No,’ 1988
Derek Mahon, ‘Afterlives,’ part of the collection ‘Collected Poems,’ 2008
Sinead Morrisey, ‘In Belfast,’ part of the collection ‘Between Here and There,’ 2002
John Hewitt, ‘The Troubles, 1922,’, part of the collection, ‘Out of My Time Poems 1967-74,’ 1974
Moyra Donaldson, ‘Ulster Says No,’ Ulster says no | Troubles Archive
Newspaper Articles:
Robin Sheeran, BBC News NI, The Troubles: When Belfast children fled the city - BBC News
Don Anderson, Belfast Telegraph, Don Anderson: Wherever Northern Ireland's future is eventually decided, the one place it won't be is in Belfast | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Rebecca Black, Belfast Telegraph, End of road for rusting Troubles gates tarnishing the Golden Mile | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Websites
The John Hewitt Society, About John Hewitt – The John Hewitt Society URL: https://johnhewittsociety.org/about-john-hewitt/
