Apart from this poetry, we have also studied the poetry that is common with honours level. If you click the name of the poem, it will take you to a website where you can do some further reading. 

Emily Dickinson
- I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
- I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died

W.B. Yeats
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

Elizabeth Bishop
- The Fish
- The Prodigal
- Filling Station

Philip Larkin
- Ambulances
- The Explosion

Thomas Kinsella
- Thinking of Mr D.
- Mirror in February

Sylvia Plath
- Poppies in July
- Child
- The Arrival of the Bee Box

Seamus Heaney
- A Constable Calls
- The Underground
- A Call

Derek Mahon
- Grandfather
- After the Titanic
- Antarctica

This is the poetry we are studying for Ordinary Level Leaving Certificate 2014. Click on the links to find out more information about the poem and the poet. 
You can download the actual poems too - please excuse poor quality of scans!


1. Daniel’s Duck – Kerry Hardie
2. The Net – Julie O’Callaghan
3. Madly Singing in the City – Peter Sirr
4. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
5. This is Just to Say – William Carlos Williams
6. The Voice - Patricia Beer
7. Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy
8. The Collar – George Herbert
9. The Hug - Tess Gallagher
10. Night Drive – Brendan Kennelly
11. Kidspoem – Liz Lochhead
12. Wolves in the Zoo – Howard Nemerov
13. Will We Work Together? – Marge Piercy
14. Chronicle – David Wheatley
15. Poems for Breakfast – Enda Wyley
16. Zoo Morning - Penelope Shuttle