Seamus Heaney Bloody Sunday Poem
In 1972 Seamus Heaney drove from his home in Belfast to Derry on the day of the funerals of the 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday. The late Luke Kelly of the Dubliners later asked Heaney to write him a song about his feelings on the journey. Heaney wrote "The Road to Derry".
It wasn't published until 1997 when Heaney gave it to the Derry Journal to mark the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It's just been re-published in a special edition of the same newspaper.
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