I think the entire Leaving Cert student population could have almost cried tears of joy yesterday. The engineering students were very happy, but English Paper 2 had the big win.
The absence of Elizabeth Bishop on Leaving Cert English higher level will be the big talking point for many, but as long as students did not put all their hopes on her, there were “really fabulous alternatives”, said teacher Clodagh Havel of Dublin’s Institute of Education.
Paula Meehan made her first appearance since being added to the list of prescribed poets and the unseen poem was by Victoria Kennefick, a native of Shanagarry, Co Cork, now living in Kerry
The People's Park in Limerick City is now home to a new Poetry Jukebox as part of Poetry as Commemoration, an initiative led by UCD Library with support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023.