If you’re studying the poetry of Paula Meehan 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 Meehan’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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Timecodes: 

0.00 - Introduction - Section 1

1:50 - Background - Section 2

5:08 - Structuring your answer - Section 3

7:45 - Poem 1: ‘The Exact Moment I Became a Poet’

11:13 - Poem 2: The Pattern

16:31 - Poem 3: Hearth Lesson

19:40 -  Poem 4: The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks

23:50 -  Poem 5: Prayer for the Children of Longing

26:08 -  Poem 6: My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis.

28:52 -  Poem 7: Buying Winkles

31:26 -  Poem 8: Cora Auntie

34:25 - Poem 9: Death of a Field

36:08 - Poem 10: Them Ducks Died for Ireland

37:34 -  Conclusion 

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For the full transcript, follow this link: https://www.studyclix.ie/leaving-certificate/english/higher/poetry-meehan-202324/created-by-studyclix/the-meehan-podcast-a-guide-for-leaving-cert-english-students 

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