If you’re studying the poetry of Eavan Boland for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Laura covers different aspects of Boland's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail. 

Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying. 

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And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out our topic page on Eavan Boland: 

https://www.studyclix.ie/leaving-certificate/english/higher/poetry-boland/study-this-topic  

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Intro & Background

1:57 - Poem 1: Child of Our Time

4:44 - Poem 2: The War Horse

8:01 - Poem 3: The Famine Road

11:30 - Poem 4: Love

14:50 - Poem 5: The Pomegranate 

18:44 - Poem 6: This Moment

21:07 - Poem 7: Outside History

23:34 - Poem 8: The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me

26:38 - Poem 9: The Shadow Doll

29:29 - Poem 10: White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland

32:29 - 33:00 - Conclusion

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