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  • BBC Two

Filíocht Anois

  • 2014
  • Returning Series
  • Animation
  • ~4m / ep
  • 1 season

Animated shorts exploring the meanings behind poems.

Latest: Season 1 · 2014

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  1. E1. An Peaca

    Jan 27, 2014 · 4m

    Witty animation that explores the philosophical thoughts and meanings behind the poem An Peaca, written by the great Irish language poet Seán Ó Ríordáin.

  2. E2. Oileán agus Oileán Eile

    Feb 3, 2014 · 4m

    Witty animation that explores Seán Ó Ríordáin's personal philosophy on the nature of poetry in the poem Oileán agus Oileán Eile.

  3. E3. An tSeanbhean Bhocht

    Feb 10, 2014 · 4m

    Witty animation that explores Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's poem, where Ireland is no longer portrayed as a beautiful woman, but a quarrelsome old woman who cannot be pleased.

  4. E4. Leaba Shíoda

    Feb 17, 2014 · 4m

    Enchanting animation that explores Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's powerful love poem, where the natural world becomes a metaphor for physical love.

  5. E5. Oileán

    Feb 24, 2014 · 4m

    Animation that explores Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's radical poem where she imagines her lover as an island.

  6. E6. Cuimhne an Domhnaigh

    Mar 3, 2014 · 4m

    Striking animation that explores Máirtín Ó Direáin's reflective poem about the uneasy relationship between the individual and his island home, Inis Mór.

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