In Memory of Colum McCartney
All round this little island, on the strand
Far down below there, where the breakers strive
Grow the tall rushes from the oozy sand.
Colum McCartney, Seamus Heaney’s cousin, was murdered in 1975 during a squirmish between Protestants and Catholics. His involvement occured by accident, an innocent man stopped at a fake road-block.
The Strand at Lough Beg