1st Edition

The Poetry of Bloody Sunday Reading Irish Poets

By Kübra Özermiş Copyright 2025
246 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As a turning point that changed the course of the ‘Troubles’, the Bloody Sunday massacre continues to define ongoing debates about the legacy of the ‘Troubles’ and the impact of state violence. Bloody Sunday has been at the centre of numerous cultural and literary expressions, which deal with the grief and trauma of the massacre, such as murals, songs, plays, and poetry. This volume is the first... Read more

1.     Anger, Grief, and Silencing: An Introduction to the Poetry of Bloody Sunday

 

2.     ‘A Voice That Rises Directly from Below’: Theorising the Poetry of Bloody Sunday

 

 

3.     ‘More Voices Rose. I Turned and Saw/Three Corpses Forming Red and Raw’: Bloody Sunday and Its Dead in Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Butcher’s Dozen’ (1972)

 

4.     ‘My Heart Besieged by Anger, My Mind a Gap of Danger’: Bloody Sunday in Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Road to Derry’ (1972) and ‘Casualty’ (1979)

 

 

5.     ‘Death Is Our Future and Now Is Our Past’: Bloody Sunday in Seamus Deane’s ‘After Derry, 30 January 1972’

 

6.     Lost in Obliquity? Bloody Sunday in Paul Muldoon’s Poetry

 

 

7.     Medbh McGuckian’s Return to Bloody Sunday: The Poetry of Bloody Sunday after the Second Inquiry

Biography

Kübra Özermiş is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Potsdam with a focus on Irish and English literary and cultural studies. She previously taught at Freie University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin. Her research focus includes Irish and British fiction, Irish poetry, the Northern Irish conflict, cultural memory, masculinities, Orientalism and Romanticism. She previously published with RISE and contributed a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney.