Poetry

This page is intended to provide you with the complete texts of the poetry used in this year’s Ireland program; new poems will be added as they appear in class.

Fall Quarter:

I Am

Mise Raiftearaí an File

The Heavenly Banquet

St. Patrick’s Breastplate

The Scribe

Summer Has Come

Pangur Bán

Wild Geese

When Death Comes

Come Into Animal Presence

An Tobar

Española Island

Requiem for the Croppies

The Insular Celts

The Scar

At a Potato Digging

The Famine Road

The Ballad of Ballymote

A Grafted Tongue

Drums Under the Window

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Winter Quarter:

Love in the Western World

The Emigrant

For My Irish Grandfather

The Emigrant Irish

Going Back

Why My Grandmother Could Never Escape Ireland

Traces

Leavetaking

Memories

The New Invasions

Thank You, Thank You (Patrick Kavanagh)

The Great Hunger

A View of God and the Devil

Father Mat

Whatever You Say Say Nothing

Enemy Encounter

The Disturbance

Postscript

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