Reciting Heaney
Click on the photograph (above) to hear Seamus Heaney reading Digging on the RTE Arts Show (1995).
Click on the photograph of Corey (above) to hear him reading Digging. Background Music: Extract from Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt.
Click on the photograph of Adam (above) to hear him reading Digging. Background Music: Extract from Pro et Contra for cello and orchestra by Arvo Pärt.
Click on the YouTube logo to view a montage of archive clips of Seamus Heaney reading "Digging". From BBC NI's "Seamus Heaney: A life in Pictures" broadcast 15/04/09.
Click on the Skoool logo to hear a reading of the poem with an interactive
lesson.
Click on the photograph to view Seamus Heaney read the poem in the National Gallery.
Click on the image to hear the two students, Corey and Adam, read the poem.
Click on the image (above)
to hear Sean read the poem.
Background Music: Extract from Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt.
Click on the YouTube logo to view a video of the poem made by James Graham, a young film maker from Oxford. "I wanted to make a short film in one shot. I wrote the script directly for one shot and to be based on Seamus Heaney's poem Mid-Term Break. "
Click on the photograph of Adam (above) to hear him reading Requiem for the Croppies.
Background Music: Extract from Pro et Contra for cello and orchestra by Arvo Pärt.
Click on the YouTube logo to view an image and hear a reading of the poem. Background Music: Boulavogue.
Click on the photograph to hear Seamus Heaney read the poem.
Click on the photograph of Adam (above) to hear him reading one of the sonnets from Clearances.
Background Music: Extract from Stabat Mater by Arvo
Pärt.
Click on the photograph
of the three readers (above) to hear them recite Markings.
Background Music: Extract from Pro et Contra for cello and
orchestra by Arvo Pärt.
Click on the photograph of
Adam (above) to hear him reading
A Clip.
Click on the photograph of
Corey (above) to hear him reading A Clip.
Background Music: Extract from Fratres by Arvo Pärt.