J. Raymond Carroll
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From: Oswald being stopped as he walked out the front entrance
to: Oswald being seen sitting in a second-floor lunchroom:
the fix was in.
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But, as we shall see, it didn't work.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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AND A FAMOUS FRIEND
OF FAMOUS SEAMUS
AS HISTORY
Will Record -
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
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A very impressive thread this
You have, through a variety of means
Demonstrated why Seamus Heaney
Was an impressive poet
As well as an impressive human being
It has been a joy to read your contributions
Thank you
James
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
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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 ofEcce PuerOf 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
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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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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]
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Uh...
That must have taken
quite an effort
for YOU
Mr. Andrews!
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A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING.
by John DonneAS 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. 20Our 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. -
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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
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Funeral service for Seamus Heaney held in Dublin - The Irish Times ...
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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
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
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Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
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Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees
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The most public of burials for the most private of men
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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
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
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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
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You can see
Seamus Heaney's Son
Michael
Is a Chip off
The Old Block
Here he gives us
The Last Words
Of Famous Seamus
In his beloved Latin
Noli Timere:
Don't Be Afraid
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Two Songs for Seamus
From 2 Famous Men
In Athens
Greece
Cradle
of Western
Civilization
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I hope my kids are reading this
because I want this song played
at my funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1se8_-fcxZs&feature=endscreen
Just like the great man himself.
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That's right--it's Captain Fritz's handwriting.
But these are not, contrary to myth, Captain Fritz's contemporaneous interrogation notes.
They are, like all five pages of the much-ballyhooed 'Fritz notes', in reality a transcription of the contemporaneous interrogation notes of FBI Special Agent James W. Bookhout.
Please explain Sean.
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Oswald, in other words, is handing Fritz proof that he was indeed on the first floor (probably in or around the domino room) when Jarman and Norman reentered the building and made their way up to the fifth floor.
Duh!
Then he went outside,
out with Bill Shelley in front
to watch his fearless leader go by!
Oswald Leaving TSBD?
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted · Edited by J. Raymond Carroll
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.