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William Butler Yeats

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)	Among School Children
No Second Troy	Sailing To Byzantium
September 1913	The Fisherman
The Circus Animals' Desertion

Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh	Technique and Style
Advent	Canal Bank Walk
Inniskeen Road : July Evening	Stoney Grey Soil

Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke	Aspects of Clarke's Poetry
The Planters Daughter	The Lost Heifer
The Blackbird of Derrycairn

Shakespeare

King Lear

Theme of Love in King Lear	The Character of Kent
The Parallels between the Main Plot and the Sub Plot

The Plough and The Stars

Jack Clitheroe	Nora Clitheroe
Socialism and The Covey	Language in The Plough and The Stars

Wuthering Heights

Background to Wuthering Heights	The Character of Catherine Earnshaw
The Character of Cathy Linton	The Character of Edgar Linton
The Character of Hareton Earnshaw	The Character of Heathcliff
The Narrative Techniques	Heathcliff The Revenger
Themes of the Novel	Weather Quotations

Below are two essays which received 100% in the Leaving Cert.

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Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot

Waiting

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This page was last updated on 10/6/97.