Good Poems by Irish Poets for TEFL Students

Avery

Hiya

I wonder would anyone have recommendations for good classic poems by Irish poets for use in a TEFL class. I have quite a high-level class for a few weeks and they seem interested in poetry/literature and drama.

I showed them "Mid-Term Break" and "To a Child dancing in the wind"

Any other suggestions for quite straight-forward poems like this?

Thanks!

Rapunzels

Avery wrote: »

Hiya

I wonder would anyone have recommendations for good classic poems by Irish poets for use in a TEFL class. I have quite a high-level class for a few weeks and they seem interested in poetry/literature and drama.

I showed them "Mid-Term Break" and "To a Child dancing in the wind"

Any other suggestions for quite straight-forward poems like this?

Thanks!

Junior Cert favourites:Heaney- Digging, The Early Purges, Yeats - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven... You could play The Waterboys album 'An Appointment With Mr Yeats', it has Easter 1916 and The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

Also
Eavan Boland- Child of Our Time

Emmmmm loads more obviously, these are off the top of my head :-)

allprops

There are a great series of anthologies called Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human edited by Neil Astley that carry a lot of contemporary British and Irish poetry. Well worth investing in.