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Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 4 months ago

Tollund Man

Grauballe Man

The bog people are preserved so well due to low temperatures, very little oxygen, and acidic water that maintains the skin and hair (“his rusted hair”), but erodes the bone, […]
Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 5 months ago

While reading “Politics” the final poem we read by Yeats, I was reminded of something Doggett said earlier in the semester: that we read Yeats for his poetry, not his politics. The speaker wonders how he can focus […]
Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 6 months ago

Here’s a link to a recording of Yeats reading “The Lake Isle of Inisfree”

Yeats’ own reading of this poem is really interesting in that it definitely changes how I […]
Jarad Sassone-McHugh wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 7 months ago

So I just read Yeats’ “Never give all the Heart” and thought it was an interesting play on the Shakespearean sonnet. In this poem Yeats addresses the performative aspect of attraction, and love. The speaker is […]

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