Best Of: The Coda #24: Seamus Heaney’s Casualty - on violence, complicity and freedom

25/09/2025 10 min Temporada 6 Episodio 59

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While Strength&Solidarity is on a break we’re taking the chance to re-up some favourite episodes.Coda #24 featured criminal justice and human rights expert Chris Stone reading and reflecting on a poem by Seamus Heaney, called Casualty. This famous poem of the Northern Ireland Troubles tells the story of an event that followed Bloody Sunday, the day in 1972 when British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians in Derry as they were protesting internment without trial.Quick LinksSeamus Heaney’s Casualty: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51607/casualty-56d22f7512b97Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)Chris Stone: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/christopher-stoneSymposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights: https://strengthandsolidarity.org/about/