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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