https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k Poetry as a tool for healing en-us 2020-12-06 03:22:24 UTC 2023-03-28 10:56:45 UTC hello@padlet.com tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003683418 -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. ]]> 2020-12-09 19:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003683418 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003721641 2020-12-09 19:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003721641 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003743341 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.]]> 2020-12-09 19:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003743341 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003753877 2020-12-09 19:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003753877 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003766234 2020-12-09 19:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003766234 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003784083 -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.]]> 2020-12-09 19:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003784083 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003800499 "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!’"]]> 2020-12-09 19:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003800499 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003804804 2020-12-09 19:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1003804804 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030375596 Philoctetes, abandoned by his Greek comrades, recovered as desired by the God Heracles, would later help slay Paris of Troy.]]> 2020-12-18 05:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030375596 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030384656 2020-12-18 05:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030384656 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030403635 2020-12-18 06:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030403635 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404459 2020-12-18 06:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404459 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404616 2020-12-18 06:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404616 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404782 2020-12-18 06:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030404782 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030405807 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.]]> 2020-12-18 06:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030405807 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030423193 2020-12-18 06:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030423193 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030426338 Like many other hard to grasp intimate parts of Irish life, Montague understands the dichotomy of the crippled oppressed body and the cheerful host.]]> 2020-12-18 06:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030426338 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030450990 2020-12-18 06:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030450990 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030458083 2020-12-18 06:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030458083 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030458586 2020-12-18 06:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030458586 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030511891 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.]]> 2020-12-18 07:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030511891 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030514936 2020-12-18 07:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030514936 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030516220 -by Paul Muldoon]]> 2020-12-18 07:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030516220 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030521581 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.]]> 2020-12-18 07:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030521581 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030539195 2020-12-18 07:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030539195 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030539713 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.]]> 2020-12-18 07:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1030539713 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032593222 "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]]> 2020-12-18 20:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032593222 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032598656 2020-12-18 20:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032598656 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032603523 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. ]]> 2020-12-18 20:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032603523 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032614572 2020-12-18 20:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032614572 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032633344 2020-12-18 20:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032633344 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032640252 2020-12-18 20:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032640252 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032641299 2020-12-18 20:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032641299 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032653569 2020-12-18 20:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032653569 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032687094 2020-12-18 21:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032687094 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032915338 2020-12-19 01:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032915338 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032934234 2020-12-19 01:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032934234 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032934253 2020-12-19 01:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032934253 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032935320 2020-12-19 01:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032935320 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032936360 Mahon asks you to consider the losses of centuries prior, and with that bring strength to your insight]]> 2020-12-19 01:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032936360 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032937138 -by Derek Mahon]]> 2020-12-19 01:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032937138 tortolanimar https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032940284 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.]]> 2020-12-19 01:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tortolanimar/w2mesxp2oklkyq5k/wish/1032940284