Irish Leaving Certificate English: Poetry

Title: Irish Leaving Cert English Poetry (Great Site)

Author: Ireland In Schools

Full Text & Source: http://www.iisresource.org/Pages/leaving_cert_poetry.aspx

The Internet, Online, 22/11/2015

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For study guides and other support material, including commentaries on texts and some

model answers:

http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=3630 (Higher)

http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=3629 (Ordinary)

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Poets & their poetry

Boland, Eavan Notes	Child of Our Time     Note on poem LoveOutside History The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me The Famine Road    Note 1 on poem     Note 2 on poem The Pomegranate The Shadow Doll The War Horse This Moment           Note on poem White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland
Carson, Ciaran Notes	Soot
Durcan, Paul Notes	Going home to Mayo Winter 1949         Note on poem
Hartnett, Michael Notes	Death of an Irish Woman
Heaney, Seamus Notes	A Constable Calls       Note on poem Bogland Field of Vision Note on poemLightenings viii. (The annals say…) Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight St Kevin and the Blackbird The Forge The Harvest Bow The Skunk The Tollund Man Twice Shy Valediction
Hewitt, John Notes	The Green Shoot
Kavanagh, Patrick Notes	A Christmas Childhood – Reading     Text       Note on poem Advent Canal Bank Walk Epic From The Great Hunger Section 1 Inniskeen Road; July Evening Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal On Raglan Road     Note on poem Shancoduff             Note on poem The Hospital           Reading by P J Brady (You Tube)
Kennelly, Brendan Notes	The Prodigal Son
Kinsella, Thomas Notes	Mirror in February
Longley, Michael* Notes * notes on all poems	An Amish Rug Badger Remembering Carrigskeewaun Cease Fire Laertes Last Requests Mayo Monologues 3. Self-heal Poteen Wounds Wreaths
Mahon, Derek Notes	A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford After the Titanic      Note on poem Antartica As It Should Be Day Trip to Donegal Ecclesiastes Grandfather             Note on poem KinsaleRathlin Island The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
Mcneice, Louis Notes	Autobiography
Meehan, Paula Notes	Would You Jump Into My Grave As Quick?
Montague, John Notes	The Cage     Note on poem
Muldoon, Paul Notes	Anseo Text & Reading by Paul Muldoon
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Notes	Swine Herd
Yeats, William B. Notes	An Acre of Grass Easter 1916 From Meditations in Time of Civil War: VI Stare’s Nest From Under Ben Bulben: V and VI: Politics In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz Sailing to Byzantium September 1913 Swift’s Epitaph The Lake Isle of Innisfree         Note on poem The Second Coming The Wild Swans at Coole        Note on poem An Irish Airman Foresees his Death     Note on poem