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Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered!

Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays. 

In the second episode of the series, Peter gives us an overview of the plot of the play. He will provide a better understanding of the sequence of events that take place in the play and how the various plot points are cleverly woven together by Shakespeare, before the play’s conclusion. 

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

As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.
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Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered!

Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays. 

This is the first episode in this series, so to kick us off Peter is going to give us some background to the play, exploring when and WHY Shakespeare wrote this play in the first place.

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

As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.
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If you’re studying the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 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 Ní Chuilleanáin'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 the free resources on our community page!

https://www.studyclix.ie/community/le... 

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Timecodes: 

00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Background 
02:46 - Poem 1: The Second Voyage
06:05 - Poem 2: Death and Engines
09:35 - Poem 3: Fireman’s Lift
13:33 - Poem 4: Street 
16:35 - Poem 5: All for You
19:15 - Poem 6: Following
22:57 - Poem 7: Kilcash
25:59 - Poem 8: Translation
29:30 - Poem 9 : The Bend in the Road 
33:33 - Poem 10: On Lacking the Killer Instinct
36:16 -  Poem 11: Lucina Schynning in the Silence of the Nicht
39:10 - Poem 12: To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9 September 2009
 42:31 -  Conclusion 

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If you’re studying the poetry of Seamus Heaney 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 Heaney'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 the free resources on our community page!

https://www.studyclix.ie/community/le...

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Introduction
1:46 - Background and Poetic Influences
05:31 - Poem 1: Bogland
08:29 - Poem 2: The Tollund Man
12:21 - Poem 3: Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication 1 Sunlight
14:47 - Poem 4: A Constable Calls
17:39 - Poem 5: A Call
20:35 - Poem 6: The Harvest Bow
24:40 - Poem 7: The Pitchfork
28:33 - Poem 8: The Forge
32:37 - Poem 9 : The Underground
36:36 - Poem 10: The Skunk
39:41 - Poem 11: Tate’s Avenue
42:45 - Poem 12: Postscript
46:39 - Poem 13: Lightenings, viii: ‘The Annals Say’
48:38 -  Conclusion 

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If you’re studying the poetry of Sylvia Plath 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 Plath'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 the free resources on our community page!

https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english 

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Timecodes:

0:00 Introduction 
1:20 Background 
3:28 Structuring your answer
5:22 Poem 1 ‘Morning Song’
8:50 Poem 2 ‘Child’
11:17 Poem 3 ‘Poppies in July’
13:56 Poem 4  ‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’
17:02 Poem 5 ‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’
20:25 Poem 6 ‘Mirror’
23:53 Poem 7 ‘Finisterre’
27:30 Poem 8 ‘Elm’
31:31 Poem 9 ‘The Times are Tidy’
34:41 Poem 10 ‘Pheasant’
36:53 Conclusion 

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

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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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And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page!

https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english 

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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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If you're studying the poetry of W.B. Yeats for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Peter covers different aspects of Yeat's poetry in this podcast, including a detailed analysis into Yeats biography and the influence that had on his work.

Then, Peter focuses on each of the 10 Yeats poems that feature on the Leaving Cert English syllabus. There are timecodes below to skip to only the poems you're studying in class.
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Peter has his own Youtube channel where he uploads excellent videos covering all parts of the Leaving Cert English course. Check out Mr Tobin Leaving Cert English at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q

And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page!
https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/

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Timecodes:
1.56 - Yeat's Biography
11:13 - Yeat's Influences
14:36 - Lake Isle of Inisfree
16:29 - September 1913
19:17 - The Wild Swans of Cool.e
21:20 - Easter 1916
24:49 - An Irish Arm Foresees His Death
27:12 - Sailing to Byzantium
29:49 - The Second Coming
32:11 - From Meditations In Time Of Civil War 
34:02 - In Memory Of Eva Con Booth and Constant Marck
36:46 - Swifts Epitaph
39:08 - Politics 
40:26 - Under Benbulden (Parts 5 & 6)

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As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.

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If you're studying the poetry of Emily Dickinson for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

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

Leaving Cert English students will be doing the select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to ones you're studying.
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Peter has his own Youtube channel where he uploads excellent videos covering all parts of the Leaving Cert English course. Check out Mr Tobin Leaving Cert English at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q

And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page!
https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/

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Timecodes:
0: 49 - Who is Emily Dickinson?
6:40 - Style & Form
10:17 - Themes
15:45 - "Hope" is the thing with feathers
17:56 - There's a certain Slant of light
21:47 - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
24:44 - A Bird came down the Walk
26:33 - I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
29:08 - The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
32:07 - I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to
34:07 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass
37:34 - I taste a liquor never brewed
39:18 - After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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According to the Examiner's Report over the years, Unseen Poetry is one of the worst answered sections on the English paper. Because it's a section you can't study for, Leaving Cert students can dismiss it as being unimportant.

But for that reason, the marking scheme is generous. Meaning it's more than possible to score well in this section.

In this podcast, English teacher Peter Tobin tells you the best way to approach Unseen Poetry and gives you tips on how to structure answers that will impress the examiner.
 
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Check out the blog on Studyclix.ie for a link to Peter's cheat sheet for approaching the Unseen Poetry section.
https://studyclix.ie/Blog/Show/podcast-tips-for-unseen-poetry

And for more free Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exam, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q

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Below is each of the poems Peter looks at on the podcast for you to reference as you listen:

Poem 1: Neutral Tones

By Thomas Hardy 

We stood by a pond that winter day,And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;– They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes on me were as eyes that roveOver tedious riddles of years ago;And some words played between us to and froOn which lost the more by our love.
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thingAlive enough to have strength to die;And a grin of bitterness swept therebyLike an ominous bird a-wing….
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,And wrings with wrong, have shaped to meYour face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,And a pond edged with grayish leaves.

Walking Away

by Cecil Day-Lewis

It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day –A sunny day with leaves just turning,The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you playYour first game of football, then, like a satelliteWrenched from its orbit, go drifting away
Behind a scatter of boys. I can seeYou walking away from me towards the schoolWith the pathos of a half-fledged thing set freeInto a wilderness, the gait of oneWho finds no path where the path should be.
That hesitant figure, eddying awayLike a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,Has something I never quite grasp to conveyAbout nature’s give-and-take – the small, the scorchingOrdeals which fire one’s irresolute clay.
I have had worse partings, but none that soGnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughlySaying what God alone could perfectly show –How selfhood begins with a walking away,And love is proved in the letting go.

By Maura Dooley

In February, digging his garden, planting potatoes,he saw the first lapwings return and cameindoors to write to me, his knuckles singingas they reddened in the warmth.It’s not romance, simply how things are.You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasonsturning, me with my heartful of headlinesfeeding words onto a blank screen.Is your life more real because you dig and sow?You wouldn’t say so, breaking ice on a waterbutt,clearing a path through snow. Still, it’s youwho sends me word of that other worldpouring air and light into an envelope. So thatat night, watching the same news in different houses,our souls tap out messages across the icy miles.

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Generally, the Comparative section on the English paper is something all Leaving Cert students need to undertake. And despite it being worth 70 marks, it is historically one of the worst answered questions on the entire English paper.
In this podcast, expert teacher Peter Tobin gives his take on the Comparative section. How best to approach it, and tips for getting the best marks you possibly can.

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

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

As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.
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