Casualty: A Powerful Elegy Exploring Irish Unrest
Reading Time: 7 minutesHeaney’s poem Casualty is a powerful elegy, first included in the Field Work (1979) collection and then in Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (1998). In the poem, the poet describes the death of his fisherman friend, Louis O’Neill, though he does not mention his name. He was one of those British soldiers killed during a protest march. He…
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