For those of us not well-versed in contemporary Irish history, U2's song "Bloody Sunday" is probably our main link to the tragedy that unfolded in Derry, Northern Ireland on January 30th, 1972. Thirteen unarmed civilians were killed when a British military battalion opened fire on a group of protesters marching in the Bogside neighborhood. In his poem "
Casualty," Seamus Heaney approaches the violence of that turbulent time through the death of a local fisherman he knew. Curtis Fox discusses the poem with the professor Joshua Weiner in
the latest "Poetry off the Shelf." 
For those of us not well-versed in contemporary Irish history, U2's song "Bloody Sunday" is probably our main link to the tragedy that unfolded in Derry, Northern Ireland on January 30th, 1972. Thirteen unarmed civilians were killed when a British military battalion opened fire on a group of protesters marching in the Bogside neighborhood. In his poem "Casualty," Seamus Heaney approaches the violence of that turbulent time through the death of a local fisherman he knew. Curtis Fox discusses the poem with the professor Joshua Weiner in the latest "Poetry off the Shelf." 
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