"Paula Meehan's Dublins: Landscape, Community and Poetic Identity
This essay maps how the poet Paula Meehan transforms the contours of the Dublin of her verse, the private and the shared lives of her Dubliners and their relationship with its physical environment ...
Poem of the Week: "The Exact Moment I Became a Poet" by Paula Meehan
Paula's Meehan's "The Exact Moment I Became a Poet" recounts the injurious, if inspiring, tale of when the poet as a child first understood the emotional gravity that words contain. First printed in Meehan's fifth volume Dharmakaya, the poem is reprinted in Meehan's most new selected poems, As If By Magic. The collection ...
Paula Meehan: the poet at 60
"The work of poetry makes a better fist at arriving at what is human in the world than most things," Higgins said in 2013. He was announcing Meehan's appointment as Ireland professor of poetry, a ...
"I only know I must": Transfiguring Irish Shame in Paula Meehan's
Meehan's troika is not the troika of Irish neoliberalism, however. Rather, the poem bears witness to the suffering, in the 1960s and 1970s, of the poorest in Dublin's tenement slums. Written at the height of the boom, "Troika" is a Celtic Tiger poem, not a poem of the crash. Meehan writes from the Greek island of Ikaria as from respite ...
Project MUSE
This special issue celebrates and critiques the work of one of the most remarkable contemporary Irish poets. Over the past quarter century, through six volumes of poetry and eight plays, Paula Meehan has uncovered a terrain unique to her vision: lyric, dramatic, committed, and communal. The essays and interview featured in this issue clarify ...
A Way of Going Back: Memory and Estrangement In the Poetry of Paula Meehan
The personal and the political are entwined in the poetry of Paula Meehan. It is a connection far exceeding any simple relationship between singular and collective perceptions, yielding instead to an enduring engagement with the processes of bearing
The Meehan Podcast: A guide for Leaving Cert English students
The Meehan Podcast: A guide for Leaving Cert English students. Listen to our H1 audio notes on the poet Paula Meehan. My name is Laura Daly, I'm an experienced English teacher from Dublin and in this podcast, I will bring you through each of Meehan's poems that could appear on the day of your exam. I will take you through all 10 of Meehan's ...
4 Paula Meehan: Poetry across Boundaries
Abstract This considers how Meehan's work promotes transgression of boundaries between self and non-self, social class, and nation. Subheadings: Creating Distance explores the geographical and ideological distances from Ireland which Meehan generated during her early career, and wrote about in her first three collections. Gary Snyder and Meehan's Poetry of Breath offers an account of the ...
Chapter 21
This is Meehan's world, yet her world contains so much more too, in poems that encompass Buddhism, environmental concerns, and the classical world. Class consciousness is an intrinsic aspect of Meehan's artistic vision, rather than a thematic add-on, and critical engagement with her work requires a decisive reorientation of conventional ...
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Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in Her poetry collections include Return and No Blame Dublin Beaver Row Reading the Sky Beaver Row The Man
Paula Meehan
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 and raised in two famous working-class districts of Dublin, before graduating from Trinity College and Eastern Washington University. She has conducted workshops with many inner-city communities and prisons as well as universities. Her work is much translated and among the prizes she has won are The Martin Toonder ...
Paula Meehan
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955, the eldest of six children. She subsequently moved to London with her parents where she attended St. Elizabeth's Primary School in Kingston upon Thames. She then returned to Dublin with her family where she attended a number of primary schools finishing her primary education at the Central Model Girls ...
The Creative Process: Making Poems by Paula Meehan
Hands down, one of the best parts of being Anam Cara's director is getting to know the writers- and artists-in-residence and their work. They have taught me and each other much about the creative process. Their genre/medium may be similar to someone else's, but their approach is always unique and inspirational. As a fundraiser for Pieta House, […]
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Aoife's Notes - Leaving Certificate English Notes
Professor Paula Meehan
Professor Paula Meehan Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. She has received many awards, including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. She has published five collections ...
Paula Meehan and the Practice of Writing
Paula Meehan is a highly acclaimed and respected Irish poet and playwright. In September 2013, Meehan was awarded the Chair of Irish Poetry, Professor of Poetry, by President Michael D. Higgins. Paula began her talk by mentioning the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who was killed for writing a poem that compared Stalin's moustache to a pair of ...
Paula Meehan
Paula Meehan is an Irish poet, born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. Paula Meehans' poetry is widely translated and included on the Leaving Certificate syllabus.
Hearth Lesson by Paula Meehan
Symbolism. Zeus + Hera, both Greek gods used to represent the poets parents, to children parents are like gods. 'like trapped exotic birds', could symbolise that the child and mother are trapped in a life of poverty, unable, to achieve their goals. Notes and Anki Decks for the Leaving Cert.
Paula Meehan Archives
September 7, 2023. English / Paula Meehan / Poetry. "Hearth Lesson" by Paula Meehan for Leaving Cert English You may also like: Complete Guide to Paula Meehan for Leaving Cert Introduction: The poet speaks about how she is often….
Leaving Cert English Prescribed Poetry
Revision notes for Leaving Certificate English students focusing on prescribed poetry.
Leaving Cert English Higher Level Poetry
A full, annotated sample essay and sample essay questions for new prescribed poet Paula Meehan. All past questions for each poet are included. Contains all eight poets prescribed for examination in 2024. Features a clear, colourful A4 layout. A key image accompanies each poem. Timeline for each poet offers relevant biographical detail to give context to their work. Pre-reading and ...
The Meehan Podcast: A guide for Leaving Cert English students
The LC English course broken down into topics from essays to Yeats. For each topic find study notes, sample essays as well as past exam questions with marking schemes.
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This essay maps how the poet Paula Meehan transforms the contours of the Dublin of her verse, the private and the shared lives of her Dubliners and their relationship with its physical environment ...
Paula's Meehan's "The Exact Moment I Became a Poet" recounts the injurious, if inspiring, tale of when the poet as a child first understood the emotional gravity that words contain. First printed in Meehan's fifth volume Dharmakaya, the poem is reprinted in Meehan's most new selected poems, As If By Magic. The collection ...
"The work of poetry makes a better fist at arriving at what is human in the world than most things," Higgins said in 2013. He was announcing Meehan's appointment as Ireland professor of poetry, a ...
Meehan's troika is not the troika of Irish neoliberalism, however. Rather, the poem bears witness to the suffering, in the 1960s and 1970s, of the poorest in Dublin's tenement slums. Written at the height of the boom, "Troika" is a Celtic Tiger poem, not a poem of the crash. Meehan writes from the Greek island of Ikaria as from respite ...
This special issue celebrates and critiques the work of one of the most remarkable contemporary Irish poets. Over the past quarter century, through six volumes of poetry and eight plays, Paula Meehan has uncovered a terrain unique to her vision: lyric, dramatic, committed, and communal. The essays and interview featured in this issue clarify ...
The personal and the political are entwined in the poetry of Paula Meehan. It is a connection far exceeding any simple relationship between singular and collective perceptions, yielding instead to an enduring engagement with the processes of bearing
The Meehan Podcast: A guide for Leaving Cert English students. Listen to our H1 audio notes on the poet Paula Meehan. My name is Laura Daly, I'm an experienced English teacher from Dublin and in this podcast, I will bring you through each of Meehan's poems that could appear on the day of your exam. I will take you through all 10 of Meehan's ...
Abstract This considers how Meehan's work promotes transgression of boundaries between self and non-self, social class, and nation. Subheadings: Creating Distance explores the geographical and ideological distances from Ireland which Meehan generated during her early career, and wrote about in her first three collections. Gary Snyder and Meehan's Poetry of Breath offers an account of the ...
This is Meehan's world, yet her world contains so much more too, in poems that encompass Buddhism, environmental concerns, and the classical world. Class consciousness is an intrinsic aspect of Meehan's artistic vision, rather than a thematic add-on, and critical engagement with her work requires a decisive reorientation of conventional ...
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in Her poetry collections include Return and No Blame Dublin Beaver Row Reading the Sky Beaver Row The Man
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 and raised in two famous working-class districts of Dublin, before graduating from Trinity College and Eastern Washington University. She has conducted workshops with many inner-city communities and prisons as well as universities. Her work is much translated and among the prizes she has won are The Martin Toonder ...
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955, the eldest of six children. She subsequently moved to London with her parents where she attended St. Elizabeth's Primary School in Kingston upon Thames. She then returned to Dublin with her family where she attended a number of primary schools finishing her primary education at the Central Model Girls ...
Hands down, one of the best parts of being Anam Cara's director is getting to know the writers- and artists-in-residence and their work. They have taught me and each other much about the creative process. Their genre/medium may be similar to someone else's, but their approach is always unique and inspirational. As a fundraiser for Pieta House, […]
Aoife's Notes - Leaving Certificate English Notes
Professor Paula Meehan Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. She has received many awards, including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. She has published five collections ...
Paula Meehan is a highly acclaimed and respected Irish poet and playwright. In September 2013, Meehan was awarded the Chair of Irish Poetry, Professor of Poetry, by President Michael D. Higgins. Paula began her talk by mentioning the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who was killed for writing a poem that compared Stalin's moustache to a pair of ...
Paula Meehan is an Irish poet, born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. Paula Meehans' poetry is widely translated and included on the Leaving Certificate syllabus.
Symbolism. Zeus + Hera, both Greek gods used to represent the poets parents, to children parents are like gods. 'like trapped exotic birds', could symbolise that the child and mother are trapped in a life of poverty, unable, to achieve their goals. Notes and Anki Decks for the Leaving Cert.
September 7, 2023. English / Paula Meehan / Poetry. "Hearth Lesson" by Paula Meehan for Leaving Cert English You may also like: Complete Guide to Paula Meehan for Leaving Cert Introduction: The poet speaks about how she is often….
Revision notes for Leaving Certificate English students focusing on prescribed poetry.
A full, annotated sample essay and sample essay questions for new prescribed poet Paula Meehan. All past questions for each poet are included. Contains all eight poets prescribed for examination in 2024. Features a clear, colourful A4 layout. A key image accompanies each poem. Timeline for each poet offers relevant biographical detail to give context to their work. Pre-reading and ...
The LC English course broken down into topics from essays to Yeats. For each topic find study notes, sample essays as well as past exam questions with marking schemes.