Studying the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh for the Leaving Cert? This podcast is for you!

Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Peter looks at the themes and style of Kavanagh’s poetry in this podcast and examines each of his 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. 

0:00 Intro, Themes & Style

16:23 Inniskeen Road: July Evening

19:28 Shancoduff

21:42 The Great Hunger, Section 1

26:38 Advent

30:05 A Christmas Childhood

32:00 On Raglan Road

34:30 Epic

36:40 The Hospital

38:35 Canal Bank Walk

41:48 Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal Dublin 

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For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q

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