11 Videos Of Seamus Heaney Reading His Poems Aloud

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet died Friday.

1. ‘Digging’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dIzJgbNANzk.

From BBC NI’s “Seamus Heaney: A life in Pictures”

ID: 1576947

2. ‘Death of a Naturalist’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sgsaB4NRSak.

ID: 1576969

3. ‘St. Kevin and the Blackbird’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wKGmQcSFbMc.

Faber and Faber

ID: 1576953

4. ‘The Underground’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=30LR0tIDb3g.

Faber and Faber

ID: 1576968

5. ‘A Drink of Water’, ‘Oysters’, ‘Tate’s Avenue’, ‘The Baler’, ‘Postscript’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bxKiij7Q788.

Griffin Poetry Prize

(From 3.13)

ID: 1576976

6. ‘When all the others were away at Mass’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNWyWJu4gzY.

RTE

From ‘Clearances’.

ID: 1577008

7. ‘Scaffolding’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fNYBwF7lKLA.

Faber and Faber

ID: 1576978

8. ‘Beacons at Bealtaine’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZQ8tanftXE.

ID: 1577013

9. ‘The Given Note’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NuUhP0vZuB8.

ID: 1577023

10. ‘Lightening VIII’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BnxfqcJ691g.

RTE

ID: 1577024

11. ‘Mid-Term Break’

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4YgzE60gMW4.

Poetry Ireland

ID: 1577016

Heaney’s reading of ‘Beowulf’ is currently available in two parts on YouTube.

ID: 1577020