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How divisions in Northern Ireland affected Seamus Heaney's use of language. One of his poems came to be used as IRA propaganda. Heaney explains how writing poetry in a divided Northern Ireland meant he had to be careful, so as not to exacerbate a sensitive situation. People in the region at that time were self-conscious about particular word-use, even within otherwise innocuous language. The clip contains an excerpt from 'Requiem for the Croppies', a poem celebrating the Irish rebellion of 1798, and Heaney explains how this poem came to be used for IRA propaganda.