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anglo irish poets of the past L.C.

  • 10-07-2013 8:04pm
    #1
    De Bellem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭


    There is a serious thread on "The Anglo Irish Tapes " but it got me thinking
    about the LEAVING CERT of the past where we were almost guaranteed one of the following " Anglo- Irish Poets" ( pre 1990s ) . Who did you burn the midnight oil for? Was it
    W.B Yeats, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh or was it Thomas Kinsella

    Ahh ...... 4 Poets , one hopefully to appear in any year. Who came up that year? Did you study one of them very well , one o.k . one fairly ok and then prayed that the one you skipped would not appear.

    Who appeared on that never to be forgotten June afternoon for you Db


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  • #2
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Yeah.


  • #3
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,915 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    All four are Irish poets, don't see the anglo connection!


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Can't remember.

    Which one shagged Maud Gonne and hoked taties in Monaghan?

    Might have been him. Maybe.


  • #5
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Thomas Kinsella. Did the LC in 1996 and teachers were confident he'd be the man, as it had been so long since the last time he made an appearance. So, having a naive amount of faith in them, I swotted the arse off his poems. It paid off. :)

    Ah... Soundings.


  • #6
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Thomas Kinsella. Did the LC in 1996 and teachers were confident he'd be the man, as it had been so long since the last time he made an appearance. So, having a naive amount of faith in them, I swotted the arse off his poems. It paid off. :)

    Ah... Soundings.


    What, both of them? not a hardship surely...


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  • #7
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    bodice ripper wrote: »
    What, both of them? not a hardship surely...
    I was an extremely lazy student. :o


  • #8
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    I was an extremely lazy student. :o


    but they are lovely, memorable poems


  • #9
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    bodice ripper wrote: »
    but they are lovely, memorable poems
    A lazy student with a lack of appreciation of great poetry. That wouldn't come for another few years.


  • #10
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    By no stretch of the imagination could Patrick Kavanagh be described as "Anglo-Irish", downright trollish to be suggesting otherwise.


  • #11
    De Bellem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭De Bellem


    Sorry if offended but the gereral category for those poets at the time was that. I know it was used with a kind of poetic licence but
    thats what they were called.


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