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-by Seamus Heaney
As the Troubles were in parallel moving towards ceasefires while simultaneously hosting IRA mortar attacks and UVF civilian killings, Seamus Heaney released his verse interpretation of Philoctetes.

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Heany was inspired to write the Cure at Troy as he saw Mandela fight for peace within his apartheid divided people. Many Irishmen felt connected to this cause and longing to end warfare.

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-by Bobby Sands
Written within the H-block cells in his arrest, smuggled out through minute writings in toilet paper. Bobby Sands inspired his people to act on the need for justice within them.

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"There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’"

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Philoctetes, abandoned by his Greek comrades, recovered as desired by the God Heracles, would later help slay Paris of Troy.

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Born in Brooklyn sent back to homeland Ireland at the age of 4, he eventually grew to write poetry from the University of Dublin. Montague well expressed the personal loss and sense of exile within his words. Reported for the Irish Times in Paris, closing off his years back in Cork, Ireland.

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Like many other hard to grasp intimate parts of Irish life, Montague understands the dichotomy of the crippled oppressed body and the cheerful host.

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Paul Muldoon has often been criticized to be less of a poet and more a juggler of words. In that streak, he has still encapsulated the irrational and often paradoxical nature of Northern Ireland within his stanzas.

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-by Paul Muldoon

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From the ash-plant to the salley-rod to the hazel-wand, Paul Muldoon often mixes traditional Celtic nature and sometimes blatant Christian implication into his poetry.

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Part of his award winning collection "Why Brownlee Left" the self titled poem below establishes the premise of Muldoon's world: questions where the answer cant be found, and a world where there is no truth except what vagueness Muldoon provides.

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"Though the poet’s first duty must be to his imagination, he has other obligations—and not just as a citizen. He would be inhuman if he did not respond to tragic events in his own community, and a poor artist if he did not seek to endorse that response imaginatively.”

-Michael Longley

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Michael Longley has received recognition for his commitment towards soft, simple sentimentality in his writing. Nonetheless, he stays ever aware of expressing his truth on the Troubles.

Longley is also revered for his ability to captivate a beautiful sentiment in a few beautiful lines.

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Who was it who suggested that the opposite of war
Is not so much peace as civilisation? He knew
Our assassinated Catholic greengrocer who died
At Christmas in the arms of our Methodist minister,
And our ice-cream man whose continuing requiem
Is the twenty-one flavours children have by heart.
Our cobbler mends shoes for everybody; our butcher
Blends into his best sausages leeks, garlic, honey;
Our cornershop sells everything from bread to kindling.
Who can bring peace to people who are not civilised?
All of these people, alive or dead, are civilised.

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Who was it who suggested that the opposite of war Is not so much peace as civilisation? He knew Our assassinated Catholic greengrocer who died At Christmas in the arms of our Methodist minister, And our ice-cream man whose continuing requiem Is the twenty-one flavours children have by heart.

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Mahon asks you to consider the losses of centuries prior, and with that bring strength to your insight

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an excerpt of A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

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an excerpt of A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

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-by Derek Mahon

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Derek Mahon, born in Belfast, moved from Dublin to France to the States and eventually London. His movement and position as an outsider gives him a distinct view of the role of those who suffer in for Northern Ireland, giving simple buildings and simple dates a critically impactful weight.

As reporter Oana Sanziana Marian recounts, Mahon admitted for the need "to bridge another immutable distance, between the pet and the need to speak to the violence in the North during the Troubles" in an interview by Eamon Grennan.