Seamus Heaney: Poem summaries and tips for the Leaving Cert English Poetry Exam

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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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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