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  • Watch Online / Eamonn Wall: Your Rivers Have Trained You (2014)



    Desc: Eamonn Wall: Your Rivers Have Trained You: Directed by Paul O'Reilly. EAMONN WALL: Your Rivers Have Trained You is a portrait of one of Ireland's leading poets. Filmed in Eamonn's native homeplace, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, the poet walks us through several chapters of his life, interweaving them with extracts from poems and essays that characteristically have come to reveal so much about his family, travels and influences. From difficulties experienced in early school years, to becoming Professor of English at University of Missouri-St. Louis in America, Eamonn Wall takes us on a journey from childhood to fatherhood, talking candidly of his emigration to New York, of having children, of the impact of Irish storytelling on his work, of discovering new poetic forms, of politics on both sides of the Atlantic, and of his family.