North

Seamus Heaney

In North, published at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Heaney found a way to articulate a vision of Ireland – its people, history and landscape – and to express the trauma in which the country found itself. In his poems, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of Northern Europe, which allow Heaney to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to the Scandinavian and English invasions which had left such an indelible mark on Irish history.

A powerful volume that reflects the turbulent times out of which it grew, North was a landmark in both the poet’s career and in Irish cultural life of the period.

Faber & Faber 1975

Translated into: Hungarian

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