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Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this final episode, Peter is going to talk about how Shakespeare uses imagery and symbolism throughout Hamlet to convey underlying themes and moods.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Peter is going to talk about 4 prominent themes in Hamlet - Revenge, Appearance vs Reality and Death and Madness. Having a good understanding of the themes and giving a thoughtful analysis of their effect on the play is crucial to gaining those high marks in your exam.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Peter will be talking us through some of the minor characters in the play. Peter will be discussing the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Fortinbras, the ghost, and Horatio, analysing their impact beyond what you may have initially thought on the first read of Hamlet. This is the kind of critical literacy that will help you score higher marks in your exam!  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Peter will discuss how the characters of Polonius and Laertes are perceived by Hamlet and explore how they act as foils to Hamlet throughout the play.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Peter will be talking us through the characters of Ophelia and Gertrude. As Ophelia and Gertrude are the only two female characters in the play, Peter will not only discuss their specific roles but also explore how women were treated and represented in Shakespearean times.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Studyclix expert teacher Peter Tobin will be analysing the main antagonist of the play, Claudius. He is going to discuss the various aspects of Claudius’ character and the impact he has on the plot of the play. For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In this episode, Peter will explore the dynamic character of Hamlet himself, map his character development throughout the play and discuss how the events of the play impacted his psyche.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  In the second episode of the series, Peter gives us an overview of the plot of the play. He will provide a better understanding of the sequence of events that take place in the play and how the various plot points are cleverly woven together by Shakespeare, before the play’s conclusion.  For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Studying Hamlet for your Leaving Cert? Studyclix has you covered! Listen to expert teacher Peter Tobin, as he takes a deep dive into the play, providing useful analysis and theories that you can use in your Shakespeare essays.  This is the first episode in this series, so to kick us off Peter is going to give us some background to the play, exploring when and WHY Shakespeare wrote this play in the first place. For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exams, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you’re studying the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Laura covers different aspects of Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.  Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying.  ___________________________ And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/le...  _____________________________ Timecodes:  00:00 - Introduction 01:50 - Background  02:46 - Poem 1: The Second Voyage 06:05 - Poem 2: Death and Engines 09:35 - Poem 3: Fireman’s Lift 13:33 - Poem 4: Street  16:35 - Poem 5: All for You 19:15 - Poem 6: Following 22:57 - Poem 7: Kilcash 25:59 - Poem 8: Translation 29:30 - Poem 9 : The Bend in the Road  33:33 - Poem 10: On Lacking the Killer Instinct 36:16 -  Poem 11: Lucina Schynning in the Silence of the Nicht 39:10 - Poem 12: To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9 September 2009  42:31 -  Conclusion  ____________________________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.  ___________________________ Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix   Tiktok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you’re studying the poetry of Seamus Heaney for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Laura covers different aspects of Heaney's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail. Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying. ___________________________ And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/le... _____________________________ Timecodes: 00:00 - Introduction 1:46 - Background and Poetic Influences 05:31 - Poem 1: Bogland 08:29 - Poem 2: The Tollund Man 12:21 - Poem 3: Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication 1 Sunlight 14:47 - Poem 4: A Constable Calls 17:39 - Poem 5: A Call 20:35 - Poem 6: The Harvest Bow 24:40 - Poem 7: The Pitchfork 28:33 - Poem 8: The Forge 32:37 - Poem 9 : The Underground 36:36 - Poem 10: The Skunk 39:41 - Poem 11: Tate’s Avenue 42:45 - Poem 12: Postscript 46:39 - Poem 13: Lightenings, viii: ‘The Annals Say’ 48:38 -  Conclusion  ____________________________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.  ___________________________ Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix   Tiktok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you’re studying the poetry of Sylvia Plath for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Laura covers different aspects of Plath's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.  Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying.  ___________________________ And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english  ___________________________ Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction  1:20 Background  3:28 Structuring your answer 5:22 Poem 1 ‘Morning Song’ 8:50 Poem 2 ‘Child’ 11:17 Poem 3 ‘Poppies in July’ 13:56 Poem 4  ‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’ 17:02 Poem 5 ‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’ 20:25 Poem 6 ‘Mirror’ 23:53 Poem 7 ‘Finisterre’ 27:30 Poem 8 ‘Elm’ 31:31 Poem 9 ‘The Times are Tidy’ 34:41 Poem 10 ‘Pheasant’ 36:53 Conclusion  ___________________________  For the full transcript, follow this link: https://www.studyclix.ie/leaving-certificate/english/higher/created-by-studyclix/the-plath-podcast-a-guide-for-leaving-cert-english-students  ___________________________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.  ___________________________ Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix   Tiktok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you’re studying the poetry of Paula Meehan for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Laura covers different aspects of Meehan’s poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.  Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying.  ___________________________ And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english  _____________________________ Timecodes:  0.00 - Introduction - Section 1 1:50 - Background - Section 2 5:08 - Structuring your answer - Section 3 7:45 - Poem 1: ‘The Exact Moment I Became a Poet’ 11:13 - Poem 2: The Pattern 16:31 - Poem 3: Hearth Lesson 19:40 -  Poem 4: The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks 23:50 -  Poem 5: Prayer for the Children of Longing 26:08 -  Poem 6: My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis. 28:52 -  Poem 7: Buying Winkles 31:26 -  Poem 8: Cora Auntie 34:25 - Poem 9: Death of a Field 36:08 - Poem 10: Them Ducks Died for Ireland 37:34 -  Conclusion  ____________________________ For the full transcript, follow this link: https://www.studyclix.ie/leaving-certificate/english/higher/poetry-meehan-202324/created-by-studyclix/the-meehan-podcast-a-guide-for-leaving-cert-english-students  _____________________________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels.  ___________________________ Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix   Tiktok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you're studying the poetry of W.B. Yeats for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Peter covers different aspects of Yeat's poetry in this podcast, including a detailed analysis into Yeats biography and the influence that had on his work. Then, Peter focuses on each of the 10 Yeats poems that feature on the Leaving Cert English syllabus. There are timecodes below to skip to only the poems you're studying in class. ___________ Peter has his own Youtube channel where he uploads excellent videos covering all parts of the Leaving Cert English course. Check out Mr Tobin Leaving Cert English at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/ __________ Timecodes: 1.56 - Yeat's Biography 11:13 - Yeat's Influences 14:36 - Lake Isle of Inisfree 16:29 - September 1913 19:17 - The Wild Swans of Cool.e 21:20 - Easter 1916 24:49 - An Irish Arm Foresees His Death 27:12 - Sailing to Byzantium 29:49 - The Second Coming 32:11 - From Meditations In Time Of Civil War  34:02 - In Memory Of Eva Con Booth and Constant Marck 36:46 - Swifts Epitaph 39:08 - Politics  40:26 - Under Benbulden (Parts 5 & 6) __________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

If you're studying the poetry of Emily Dickinson for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you! English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays. Peter covers different aspects of Dickinson's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail. Leaving Cert English students will be doing the select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to ones you're studying. ___________ Peter has his own Youtube channel where he uploads excellent videos covering all parts of the Leaving Cert English course. Check out Mr Tobin Leaving Cert English at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q And for more great Leaving Cert English content on Studyclix, check out the free resources on our community page! https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/ __________ Timecodes: 0: 49 - Who is Emily Dickinson? 6:40 - Style & Form 10:17 - Themes 15:45 - "Hope" is the thing with feathers 17:56 - There's a certain Slant of light 21:47 - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 24:44 - A Bird came down the Walk 26:33 - I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 29:08 - The Soul Has Bandaged Moments 32:07 - I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to 34:07 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass 37:34 - I taste a liquor never brewed 39:18 - After great pain, a formal feeling comes __________ As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

According to the Examiner's Report over the years, Unseen Poetry is one of the worst answered sections on the English paper. Because it's a section you can't study for, Leaving Cert students can dismiss it as being unimportant. But for that reason, the marking scheme is generous. Meaning it's more than possible to score well in this section. In this podcast, English teacher Peter Tobin tells you the best way to approach Unseen Poetry and gives you tips on how to structure answers that will impress the examiner.   --- Check out the blog on Studyclix.ie for a link to Peter's cheat sheet for approaching the Unseen Poetry section. https://studyclix.ie/Blog/Show/podcast-tips-for-unseen-poetry And for more free Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exam, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q ---- Below is each of the poems Peter looks at on the podcast for you to reference as you listen: Poem 1: Neutral Tones By Thomas Hardy  We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing…. Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play Your first game of football, then, like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away Behind a scatter of boys. I can see You walking away from me towards the school With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free Into a wilderness, the gait of one Who finds no path where the path should be. That hesitant figure, eddying away Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem, Has something I never quite grasp to convey About nature’s give-and-take – the small, the scorching Ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay. I have had worse partings, but none that so Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly Saying what God alone could perfectly show – How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. Poem 3: Letters from Yorkshire By Maura Dooley In February, digging his garden, planting potatoes, he saw the first lapwings return and came indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing as they reddened in the warmth. It’s not romance, simply how things are. You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons turning, me with my heartful of headlines feeding words onto a blank screen. Is your life more real because you dig and sow? You wouldn’t say so, breaking ice on a waterbutt, clearing a path through snow. Still, it’s you who sends me word of that other world pouring air and light into an envelope. So that at night, watching the same news in different houses, our souls tap out messages across the icy miles. --- As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

Generally, the Comparative section on the English paper is something all Leaving Cert students need to undertake. And despite it being worth 70 marks, it is historically one of the worst answered questions on the entire English paper. In this podcast, expert teacher Peter Tobin gives his take on the Comparative section. How best to approach it, and tips for getting the best marks you possibly can. For more excellent (and free) Leaving Cert English content to help you excel in your exam, we highly recommend checking out Peter's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92KBWQhZ6bpEZe9x62Et3Q As always, we love to hear from you. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please get in touch by email at info@studyclix.ie. Alternatively, you can contact us via the chatbox on Studyclix.ie. You can also reach us through any of our social media channels. ——— Follow Studyclix on social media for updates, study tips, competitions, memes and more! Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @studyclix TikTok: @studyclix.ie Snapchat: study_clix

This is a recording of an Irish teacher and State Examiner reading Mo Ghrása (Idir Lúibíní) to help you with the Poetry Reading section of the Irish oral exam. Listening to this recording will help you learn the correct pronunciation and rhythm of speech.

This is a recording of an Irish teacher and State Examiner reading Géibheann to help you with the Poetry Reading section of the Irish oral exam. Listening to this recording will help you learn the correct pronunciation and rhythm of speech.

This is a recording of an Irish teacher and State Examiner reading Colscaradh to help you with the Poetry Reading section of the Irish oral exam. Listening to this recording will help you learn the correct pronunciation and rhythm of speech.