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Leaving Certificate English: Poetry

Course for examination 2023 – 2026

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LEAVING CERTIFICATE ENGLISH: POETRY 2023 - 2026

Poets for 2023 – 2026

Bishop Boland Dickinson Donne Eliot Heaney Hopkins Kavanagh Mahon Meehan Ni Chuilleanáin Plath Rich Smith Yeats

Poets prescribed for Higher Level: 2023 – 2026

2023 2024 2025 2026

Bishop

Dickinson

Donne

Kavanagh

Mahon

Meehan

Rich

Yeats

Dickinson

Donne

Heaney

Hopkins

Meehan

Ní Chuilleanáin

Plath

Yeats

Boland

Dickinson

Eliot

Hopkins

Kavanagh

Mahon

Plath

Smith

Bishop

Donne

Eliot

Heaney

Ní Chuilleanáin

Meehan

Smith

Yeats

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Poetry 2023 – 2026

Poets [Higher Level]

BISHOP, Elizabeth

The Fish The Bight At the Fishhouses The Prodigal Questions of Travel The Armadillo Sestina First Death in Nova Scotia Filling Station In the Waiting Room

BOLAND, Eavan

The War Horse

Child of Our Time

The Famine Road

The Shadow Doll

White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland

Outside History

The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me

This Moment

The Pomegranate

Love

DICKINSON, Emily

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

There’s a certain Slant of light

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

A Bird came down the Walk

I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

The Soul has Bandaged moments

I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

I taste a liquor never brewed

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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DONNE, John

The Sunne Rising

Song: Go, and catch a falling star

The Anniversarie

Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe

The Dreame (Deare love, for nothing less than thee…)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

The Flea

Batter my heart

At the round earth’s imagined corners

Thou hast made me

ELIOT, Thomas S

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

Aunt Helen

from The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess

Journey of the Magi

from Landscapes

III Usk

IV Rannoch, by Glencoe

from The Four Quartets East Coker IV

HEANEY, Seamus

The Forge

Bogland

The Tollund Man

Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight

A Constable Calls

The Skunk

The Harvest Bow

The Underground

Postscript

A Call

Tate’s Avenue

The Pitchfork

Lightenings viii. (The annals say…)

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HOPKINS, Gerard Manley God’s Grandeur Spring As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The Windhover

Pied Beauty

Felix Randal

Inversnaid

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day

No worst there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

KAVANAGH, Patrick

Inniskeen Road: July Evening

Shancoduff

from The Great Hunger Section I

Advent

A Christmas Childhood

Epic

Canal Bank Walk

Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal

The Hospital

On Raglan Road

MAHON, Derek

Grandfather

Day Trip to Donegal

Ecclesiastes

After the Titanic

As It Should Be

A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

Rathlin

The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush

Kinsale

Antarctica

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MEEHAN, Paula

Buying Winkles

The Pattern

The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks

Cora, Auntie

The Exact Moment I Became a Poet

My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis

Hearth Lesson

Prayer for the Children of Longing

Death of a Field

Them Ducks Died for Ireland

NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan

Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht

The Second Voyage

Deaths and Engines

Street

Fireman’s Lift

All for You

Following

Kilcash

Translation

The Bend in the Road

On Lacking the Killer Instinct

To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9

September 2009

PLATH, Sylvia Black Rook in Rainy Weather

The Times Are Tidy

Morning Song

Finisterre

Mirror

Pheasant

Elm

Poppies in July

The Arrival of the Bee Box

Child

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RICH, Adrienne

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room

Power

Storm Warnings

Living in Sin

The Roofwalker

Our Whole Life

Trying to Talk with a Man

Diving Into the Wreck

From a Survivor

SMITH, Tracy K

Joy

Dominion over the beasts of the Earth

The Searchers

Letter to a Photojournalist Going In

The Universe is a House Party

The Museum of Obsolescence

Don’t you wonder, sometimes?

It’s Not

The Universe as Primal Scream

The Greatest Personal Privation

I am 60 odd years of age - from I will tell you the truth about

this, I will tell you all about it

Ghazal

YEATS, William Butler

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

September 1913

The Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

Easter 1916

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

from Meditations in Time of Civil War:

VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window

In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz

Swift’s Epitaph

An Acre of Grass

from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI

Politics

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Poetry prescribed for Ordinary Level, to be examined in the following years:

2023

BROOKS, Gwendolyn kitchenette building BRYCE, Colette Mammy Dozes

BISHOP, Elizabeth The Fish

The Prodigal

Filling Station

DICKINSON, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

DONNE, John The Flea Song: Go and catch a falling star

DUFFY, Carol Ann Valentine FRANCE, Linda If Love Was Jazz JOSEPH, Allison My Father’s Kites KAVANAGH, Patrick Shancoduff

A Christmas Childhood LODEN, Rachel Memo from the Benefits Department MAHON, Derek Grandfather After the Titanic Antartica MEEHAN, Paula Buying Winkles

Hearth Lesson Prayer for the Children of Longing MORRISSEY, Sinéad Genetics MULDOON, Paul The Loaf NOWLAN, Alden In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus

OLUSANYA, Felicia For Our Mothers

RAMSELL, Billy Lament for Christy Ring

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RICH, ADRIENNE Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room

ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington Reuben Bright

SEIBLES, Tim Commercial Break: Roadrunner, Uneasy SHAKESPEARE, William Sonnet XVIII Shall I Compare Thee SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe Ozymandias STONE, Degna Swimming YEATS, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

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2024

ADCOCK, Fleur Advice to a Discarded Lover ANGELOU, Maya When Great Trees Fall BARRETT BROWNING, Elizabeth How Do I Love Thee?

CARVER, Raymond The Juggler At Heaven’s Gate CLARKE, Austin New Liberty Hall COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan

DICKINSON, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

DONNE, John The Flea Song: Go and catch a falling star

DOVE, Rita Summit Beach, 1921 FRENCH, Tom Night Drive GIOVANNI, Nikki They Clapped GROARKE, Vona Away HEANEY, Seamus A Constable Calls The Underground

A Call HOPKINS, Gerard Manley Spring

Inversnaid

HUGHES, Ted The Thought Fox MEEHAN, Paula Buying Winkles Hearth Lesson Prayer for the Children of Longing

NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan Street To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9 September 2009

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O’DONOGHUE, Bernard Ter Conatus

PLATH, Sylvia Poppies in July

Child

The Arrival of the Beebox

SMITHER, Elizabeth On the euthanasia of a pet dog SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa In Praise of My Sister WILLIAMS William Carlos This Is Just To Say

YEATS, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

ZEPHANIAH, Benjamin The Sun

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2025 BOLAND, Eavan Child of Our Time This Moment Love CLARKE, Austin New Liberty Hall COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan

DICKINSON, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

DUNMORE, Helen To My Nine-Year-Old Self

ELIOT, T.S. Preludes

Aunt Helen

GIOVANNI, Nikki Nikki Rosa

HALDEMAN, Lauren Instead of Dying HOPKINS, Gerard Manley Spring Inversnaid HUGHES, Ted The Thought Fox

KAVANAGH, Patrick Shancoduff A Christmas Childhood On Raglan Road

KEEGAN, Colm Memorial

LOCKHEAD, Liz Revelation

MAHON, Derek Grandfather

After the Titanic

Antarctica

MORISSEY, Sinéad Genetics

OLUSANYA, Felicia For Our Mothers

PLATH, Sylvia Poppies in July

Child

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ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington Reuben Bright

SHAKESPEARE, William Sonnet XVIII Shall I Compare Thee

SEIBLLES, Tim Commercial Break: Roadrunner, Uneasy

SMITH, Tracy K It’s Not

The Greatest Personal Privation

The Searchers

SMITHER, Elizabeth On the Euthanasia of a Pet Dog

TRAYNOR, Jessica The Artane Band

WRIGHT, James Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine

Island, Minnesota

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2026 ADCOCK, Fleur Advice to a Discarded Lover

BISHOP, Elizabeth The Prodigal

Filling Station

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett How Do I Love Thee? BRYCE, Colette Mammy Dozes CLANCY, Kate Driving to the Hospital DONNE, John The Flea

Song: Go and catch a falling star DOVE, RITA Summit Beach, 1921

ELIOT, T.S. Preludes Aunt Helen

HEANEY, Seamus A Constable Calls The Underground

A Call KEEGAN, Colm Memorial

MEEHAN, Paula Buying Winkles Hearth Lesson Prayer for the Children of Longing MULDOON, Paul The Loaf NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan Street

To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9 September 2009

NYE, Naomi Shihab Kindness OLIVER, Mary When I Am Among the Trees POE, Edgar Allan The Raven SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe Ozymandias SHUTTLE, Penelope Zoo Morning

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SMITH, Tracy K It’s Not

The Greatest Personal Privation

The Searchers

TRAYNOR, Jessica The Artane Band

WILLIAMS, William Carlos This is Just To Say

WRIGHT, James Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

YEATS, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

ZEPHANIAH, Benjamin The Sun