The Mutability of Time and Space as a Means of Healing History in an Australian Aboriginal Community

The poet Seamus Heaney in his famous workBogland² speaks to the connection of the Irish people to their land: Every layer they strip Seems camped on before. The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage The wet centre is bottomless He imagines Ireland’s peat bogs to be a timeless, bottomless land that has...

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1. Verfasser:	Rob Paton
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Zusammenfassung:	The poet Seamus Heaney in his famous workBogland² speaks to the connection of the Irish people to their land: Every layer they strip Seems camped on before. The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage The wet centre is bottomless He imagines Ireland’s peat bogs to be a timeless, bottomless land that has forever been camped on. For Heaney, these bogs are as deep and mysterious as the ancient Irish whose archaeological relics are uncovered by modern-day peat miners who strip away the layers. Of course, we know Ireland’s peat bogs are neither timeless nor bottomless. Scientists have shown that they