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Irish Leaving Certificate (English): poetry

Irish poetry for Key Stage 4 & beyond as used in the Irish Leaving Certificate recently

 

Anthologies & reference

Poets from the North of Ireland

edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, 0-85640-444-6


The Book of Irish Verse: Irish Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present

edited by John Montague, Bristol Park Books, 0-88486-192-9


The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

edited by Paul Muldoon, Faber, 0-57113-761-X


The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

edited by Peter Fallon & Derek Mahon, Penguin, 0-14058-609-1


Irish Poetry since 1950: From Stillness into History

by John Goodby, Manchester UP, 0-71902-997-X


The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

edited  by Matthew Campbell, CUP, 0-521-01245-7


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)


Poets & their poetry

Boland, Eavan 

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Child of Our Time   Note on poem
Love

Outside History
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
The Famine Road
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

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A Constable Calls   Note on poem
Bogland
Field of Vision   Note on poem

Lightenings 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

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A Christmas Childhood   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
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*

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* 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

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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
Kinsale

Rathlin 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

 

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

Notes

Swine Herd

Yeats, William B.

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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