Eavan Boland: Poem summaries & tips for Leaving Cert English Poetry revision

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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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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