Poet Thomas Kinsella returns to his old school in Inchicore.
Invited back to turn the sod for a new school building and to officially open the library, Thomas Kinsella looked back on his own school days in Inchicore and the teachers who made learning enjoyable. He remembers very strongly that
I knew I was going to know everything.
In 1972 following the Widgery Report into the Bloody Sunday shootings, Thomas Kinsella wrote 'Butcher’s Dozen : A Lesson for the Octave of Widgery’. He describes the anger in the poem as a response to,
A very unjust situation.
Today Kinsella welcomed the Saville Report issued by the British government, which exonerates those killed and wounded on 30 January 1972.
At the age of eighty two, Thomas Kinsella says he has learned not to expect justice at every turn, and that he is nowhere near knowing everything.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 22 June 2010. The reporter is Emma O’Kelly.
