J. Raymond Carroll

Seamus called again to say He is mad as hell And will not take it Anymore I am tired of British and American music Don't want another word about The Lakes Of Ponterchain or The drownded city of New Orleans I protested that New Orleans Is a helluva town But Seamus would not listen His parting words were And Murphy can go ....... Play something Irish and traditional! like the Lilly of the West. OK Seamus You are the boss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAzzFE_8OE

Famous Seamus loved this song, Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLq5U3YC44

Glad you enjoyed it Harry I had not heard it before so it was the same for me. Seamus has not been forgotten yet At his burial on Monday Bellaghy parish priest Fr Andy Dolan predicted the grave would become a place of pilgrimage such was the fame and love for the County Derry poet He told mourners: I'm sure many will come here in prayer in tribute and of course in study as well The poet is buried in a quiet and picturesque corner of the graveyard by a dry-stone wall in the shadow of ash and sycamore trees Image Brendan Loughlin who lives close to the graveyard said local people have been surprised by the steady stream of visitors since Monday He said many of the cars stopping by the graveyard have had southern registration numbers On Monday night late on there was a woman came in and played the harp and on Tuesday morning there was a man who came in and sat down beside the grave and played the harp for a while. There have been others standing reciting poetry and on Tuesday there was fellow writing poetry at the grave Mr Loughlin said However the Bellaghy man said the strangest development has been the number of people pouring whiskey on the grave. I saw a man myself and he poured a full bottle of Jack Daniels over the grave There's been others who take a drink and pour the rest on the grave Some people are also coming in and just putting a stone on the grave . I saw a woman doing it and talked to her about it and she said it was a Jewish tradition he said Among the more unusual tributes left on the poet's grave has been a sprig of blackberries Mr Loughlin said local people were surprised but very pleased that such recognition was being given to Seamus Heaney People around here are very proud of him For many he's just a neighbour man who has passed on People would maybe think of him more as one of the Heaney boys but everyone's very proud of him he said ■ TRIBUTES: Far left, people visit the grave of poet Seamus Heaney at St Mary's Church in Bellaghy County Derry Left, visitors to the grave late at night. Inset, Seamus Heaney. Above, a book dedicated to Heaney's memory is signed at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast

And somewhere, Jack Dougherty has to fit in here. Hopefully, this can all be pieced together and help explain the movements of the first responders that entered the TSBD after the shots. Thank you Richard For reminding us. Which reminds me that even a busted clock Is right twice a day. Warren had to admit the 2nd floor lunch room Baker-Oz encounter Because ALL the evidence supports it. All due respects to Mr. Murphy.

Good catch! Roy Truly, The world's first JFK Conspiracy Theorist! I love it! And Truly suspected Oz of being a plotter Because It seemed like a good idea At the time.

Rogers would stand on the stage dressed in his cowboy outfit, leisurely twirling a lariat, while he commented on recent news stories. He often started his Midnight Frolic monologues by saying something like: Well, what shall I talk about? I ain’t got anything funny to say. All I know is what I read in the papers.

Walk on air Against your better judgment Seamus goes to Stockholm To collect a Million Bucks Though he was never in it For the money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7KzfqtL5qY

Not Many know that I am the 3rd son Of a First Born Son Makin Me A gifted medium Tonight Seamus called to say He agrees with Sean Murphy He is tired of Irish music and wants something American. OK Seamus, you are the boss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2As4LRkZa0&list=ALBTKoXRg38BAwpcyyFF52ESsysMlJdvLw&index=3

Joe Biden hit the nail On the head With Grace Old Joe is a poet And nobody knew it I was deeply saddened to learn Of Seamus Heaney’s death One of the finest Irish poets to ever live Heaney taught us that Once in a lifetime, The longed-for tidal wave of Justice Can rise up, And hope and history rhyme We have been lucky in our lifetimes To see that tidal wave of justice rise And to find our hopes reflected in historic Moments of Opportunity But most of all, we were lucky to have a poet With the grace of Seamus Heaney Whose simple, honest wisdom could help us Better understand ourselves and the world we inhabit I am sorry that we lost him, But grateful that his words live on

AND A FAMOUS FRIEND OF FAMOUS SEAMUS AS HISTORY Will Record https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=clinton+heaney&oq=clinton+heaney&gs_l=img.12...3564.6969.0.8976.14.11.0.3.1.0.76.697.11.11.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..3.11.660.0QNCcyYuPXs#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Z5S2rBwI48kv-M%3A%3Bh9masoanqHYyuM%3Bhttp%253A%252

Seamus appears 3 times in this one, At 1.50, 2.30, and just as the queen is raising her glass at the very end. Wouldn't you know Seamus is seated At the LEFT hand Of David Cameron Britain's Prime Minister I swore to keep it secret, But I cannot tell a lie: I gave lessons in Gaelic to the Queen via Facetime Her Majesty is A very very Mac person. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKz-6vn_i00 Brilliant speech by brilliant Lady. My one complaint was this: They spoke about Good Friday But never mentioned The Man Who Made It Happen: A Pussy Cat named WIld Bill

Thank you James Kinder words were never spoken. I have heard the same by PM from members and am glad people are enjoying it My non-JFK friends Are following the thread so I must be on best behaviour. IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (Opening sentence of which GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL?) The second I saw Mary McAleese I fell madly in love And am in deeper since I watched this video of Mary's welcome To Her Britannic Majesty, Elizabeth II Regina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha0sK-QfWdU The Joy is all mine. Famous Seamus can be seen at right at 12 seconds into the video You can see Seamus And everyone present Feels the weight of History lifted

When Louis-Philippe Ruffy, Who conducted [Heaney's last] interview, Learned of Heaney’s death, All of a sudden, there was an unsettling connection between Aeneas, who goes to find his father in the underworld, and the poet’s relationship with his own, silent father. In my mind, I see the poet finding his father again. The Irish TImes Yesterday, Bellaghy was in mourning For its famous farmer’s son: The Nobel laureate who chose To come home To be buried with his people. And as the erudite Frenchman is saying today, His people include His father. Echoes of Ecce Puer Of the dark past A child is born; With joy and grief My heart is torn. Calm in his cradle The living lies. May love and mercy Unclose his eyes! Young life is breathed On the glass; The world that was not Comes to pass. A child is sleeping: An old man gone. O, father forsaken, Forgive your son! James Joyce [sORRY ABOUT EDITING PROBLEM. I JUST GAVE UP]

I love this photo of Mary McAleese wearing her best blue dress for the day The photo is historic because Ireland will soon celebrate the Centenary of Easter 1916 when the british government ordered the assassination of a truckload of Irish poets including the first President of Ireland Patrick Pearse Like President McAleese her predecessor Pearse was a lawyer 1920 photograph ofWilliam Butler Yeats First President of Éire Patrick Henry Pearse Yeats pays humble tribute to the executed leaders as he one by one establishes their place in history. Of Pearse a poet, writer and the head of St. Edna's and MacDonagh denied an opportunity to earn his own role as an Irish writer by his untimely death Yeats writes This man had kept a school and rode our winged horse This other his helper and friend Was coming into his force He might have won fame in the end So sensitive his nature seemed So daring and sweet his thought https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=632&q=thomas+mcdonagh+poems&oq=thomas+mcdonagh+poems&gs_l=img.12...4804.13662.0.16539.21.14.0.7.7.0.120.929.13j1.14.0....0...1ac.1.26.img..4.17.1017.G6cPiI1z21M#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=HReUTtnAMHFh6M%3A%3ByHpuyllYjWdzjM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252Fthumb%252F2%252F2e%252FThomas_MacDonagh.png%252F220px-Thomas_MacDonagh.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FThomas_MacDonagh%3B220%3B324 http://www.gmu.edu/org/ireland32/1916_essay.html

Liam O'Flynn plays Mo Ghile Mear My Gallant Darling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE48hJXJJFk As his friend Seamus is carried out of church in Dublin For the long sad journey to Derry, The town he loved so well. We remember the beauty of Seamus Heaney as a bard, and in his being. Paul Muldoon More Mo Ghile Mear? Sting and The Chieftains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSa0YfkxFE

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/the-most-public-of-burials-for-the-most-private-of-men-1.1513937 The most public of burials for the most private of men. Countless hearts are blown open as local farmer’s son is laid to rest. Rosita Boland Here is Liam Og O'Flynn, King of the pipers as he plays Seamus Heaney to eternal rest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWlinJFc7A The word Og should have an accent on the O, and the word OG (with accent) in Gaelic means YOUNG. For many years he was known as Liam Og O'Flynn, but now that he is getting older Liam has dropped the Og! http://www.taramusic.com/biogs/liamobg.htm

When Heaney won the Nobel Prize in 1995 the Farmers’ Journal headline was a marvel of understatement Bellaghy celebrates as farmer’s son wins top literary award Yesterday Bellaghy was in mourning for its famous farmer’s son the Nobel laureate who chose to come home to be buried with his people In months and years and generations to come people not yet born will seek out this small village to the east of Lough Neagh with the sole purpose of visiting Heaney’s grave

Is it yourself that's in it Seamus? Ma'm I cannot bow before you my passport is Green [Full disclosure I am nuts about Mary McAleese] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McAleese

That must have taken quite an effort for YOU Mr. Andrews!

A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING. by John Donne AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." [1] So let us melt, and make no noise, 5 No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ; Men reckon what it did, and meant ; 10 But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love —Whose soul is sense—cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it doth remove 15 The thing which elemented it. But we by a love so much refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assurèd of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun.

Funeral service for Seamus Heaney held in Dublin - The Irish Times ... www.irishtimes.com/.../funeral-service-for-seamus-heaney-held-in-dubli...‎ 1 day ago - Funeral service for Seamus Heaney held in Dublin. 'We are keenly .... Piper Liam O'Flynn played Port na bPucai to close the service. Mourners ... I never met Famous Seamus, nor even Liam O'Flynn, but my brother Dermot is a musician in Dublin and has played as opening act for Liam O'Flynn. So if you shake my hand you will shake the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand of the man who shook the hand of Famous Seamus Himself! Here is Liam Og O'Flynn, a great man himself, as he plays his friend Seamus to eternal rest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkHIALuieBw The Poet & The Piper - Seamus Heaney, Liam O Flynn http://www.taramusic.com/werecommend.htm

In attendance were President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tániste Eamon Gilmore, Northern Ireland Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, former president Mary McAleese and Dr Martin McAleese, Supreme Court Justices John Murray, John MacMenamin, Frank Clarke, British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Dean of the diplomatic corps and papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown, British ambassador Dominick Chilcott, Spanish ambassador Javier Garrigues, Polish ambassador Marcin Nawrot, and former chairwoman of the Worldwide Ireland Funds Loretta Brennan Glucksman. Also there were Minster of State Fergus O’Dowd, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, and Senators Fiach Mac Conghail andJohn Crown. [i don't see where the United States Ambassador was there: THIS could lead to WAR!] Writers Poets , writers, playwrights, actors, painters and musicians present included Brian Friel, Michael Longley, Edna O’Brien,Tom Murphy, Jane Brennan, Anne Madden le Brocquy, Frank McGuinness, Miceál Ó Siadhail, Barry McGovern, Gerry McSorley, Brian Keenan, Pauline Bewick, Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullan, Paul Brady, Robert Ballagh, Paddy Moloney, John Sheahan, Shane MacGowan, Bronagh Gallagher, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerry Smyth, Eugene McEldowney, Des Geraghty, publisher Fergal Tobin, producer Garech de Brun. There too were arts managers Michael Colgan, Eugene Downes, Paul McGuinness, former TCD provost Tom Mitchell, broadcasters Vincent Browne and Miriam O’Callaghan, journalist Mike Burns. EVERYONE WAS THERE EXCEPT NORMAN MAILER

Seamus Heaney’s last interview covered Homer, Virgil and Dante Heaney’s final formal interview took place in Paris last June The interview with Seamus Heaney in La Revue de Belles-Lettres will be published in November Tue, Sep 3, 2013, 08:26 In what is believed to have been his last formal interview with the French-languageRevue de Belles-Lettres during his trip to Paris in June Seamus Heaney spoke of journeys to the underworld in Homer Virgil and Dante The potency of the myth was he said, a way of imagining something ongoing Heaven and hell have little meaning for most people Heaney continued. Christian myth is so contentious and exhausted... I find that there were underworld journeys where the shades of the people you knew are met I find it deeply, archetypally satisfactory No need to believe in an afterlife but you get some kind of satisfaction I find Virgil simply beautiful the various encounters with the lost people When Louis-Philippe Ruffy who conducted the interview learned of Heaney’s death All of a sudden there was an unsettling connection between Aeneas who goes to find his father in the underworld and the poet’s relationship with his own silent father In my mind I see the poet finding his father again Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’ Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees The most public of burials for the most private of men Poet’s code of kindness, generosity and courage was theme of his last farewell The Irish Times takes no responsibility for the content or availability of other websites. Heaney also spoke of his attachment to the earth I think that I am basically a ground person you know if it came to which element... I am sedimentary. That comes out earlier on I think with poems like Bog Land which is about going down and down and finding origin there The bog So many exhibits in the National Museum of Ireland have labels saying found in a bog Heaney noted I thought that’s an image for consciousness in this country I contrasted the bog land which is about remembering downwards with the American myth of themselves which is the prairie going outwards Heaney also described his progression as a poet since the publication of his first collection Death of a Naturalist in 1966. As a young poet he said you're not thinking really of the function of poetry you’re thinking about the making of a poem Events in Northern Ireland forced him to ask how responsive to the conditions of the world ought the poet to be How much of an answer to the world you’re in is required Over two decades Heaney said he shed anxiety and was trusting lyric impulse and freedom and imagination He moved from concern with making a poem to concern with what is the obligation to the world you live in to saying to hell with it just write lyric poetry He believed he had remained in that kind of absolved condition. It took Ruffy and Marion Graf the director of La Revue de Belles-Lettres more than a year to obtain the Heaney interview The RBL is published twice annually The issue on Heaney will come out in November and will be available through the review’s website larevuedebelleslettres.ch. Only four of Heaney’s books have been translated into French, but Graf hopes the review will clear the way for more. Paris interview Ruffy had dreamed of interviewing Heaney for nearly two decades but it was the publication of Human Chain in 2010 that made Ruffy and Graf determined to meet him The interview was organised by Sheila Pratschke the outgoing director of the Irish College and took place at the Irish Ambassador’s residence in Paris Throughout Human Chain there’s this idea that we are linked Ruffy says I see Heaney’s death not as a rupture or a break. I dare to hope that these texts will continue to create ties between people If you go back to the poems he is there and the link is still there It has not been broken http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/02/seamus-heaney-funeral-hundreds-mourners

Paul Muldoon, Another Great Poet Talks about Seamus Muldoon tell of when he went to Visit Seamus After His Stroke, Famous Seamus Said: Different Strokes for Different Folks Reminds me of Ronald Reagan's line, After he was shot The bould Ronald told the Missus: Honey I Forgot to Duck http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23928065