My Poetry Readings with Declan Walsh
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
'On Raglan Road' - by Patrick Kavanagh (Last in Series - S1E13)
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the Poem'On Raglan Road' was written by a 40 year old Patrick Kavanagh for a young 22 year old medical student, Hilda Moriarty. It was...
'The Song of the Wandering Aengus' - by WB Yeats (S1E12)
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the Poem'The Song of the Wandering Aengus' is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantasti...
'You Don't Get to be Racist and Irish' - Imelda May (S1E11)
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemYou Don't Get To Be Racist And Irish" documents Irish people's history of immigration and emigration and May says that it...
'The Planter's Daughter - by Austin Clarke (S1E10)
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemThe society depicted in the poem , The Planters Daughter, is one reminiscent of images of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen...
'Begin' - by Brendan Kennelly (S1E9)
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemCommunicated through the description of a morning walk across the Grand Canal in Dublin, the poem is a philosophical reflection on start...
'Lament for Thomas McDonagh' - by Francis Ledwidge (S1E8)
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemLament of Thomas McDonagh is a poem written by Francis Ledwidge for his close friend, Thomas McDonagh, who was executed for his role in ...
'The Cure at Troy' - by Seamus Heaney (S1E7)
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemThe Cure at Troy was written in 1990 for the Field Day Theatre Company, and is an adapted version of the ancient tragic Greek pl...
'Mirror in February' - by Thomas Kinsella (S1e6)
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemThis short poem, 'Mirror In February', which was included for study on the former Leaving Certificate English syllabus, is f...
'The Stolen Child' - by William Butler Yeats (S1E5)
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemWilliam Butler Yeats wrote ‘The Stolen Child’ in 1886 and is considered to be one of his more notable and popular early poems.Ba...
'She Moved Through the Fair' - by Padraic Colum (S1E4)
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemShe Moved through the Fair was written by Padraic Colum - with an original musical version composed by Herbert Hughes. It was first pu...
'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' - by William Butler Yeats (S1E3)
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemThe Lake Isle of Innisfree’ is one of W. B. Yeats’s first great poems. The poem conjuring up a longing to go back to nature and live...
'A Christmas Childhood' - by Patrick Kavanagh (S1E2)
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About the PoemIn this episode, Declan reads the classic poem by renowned Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh - A Christmas Childhood. In this poem Kav...
Introduction - My Poetry Readings (S1E1)
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to my new podcast - My Poetry Readings, with Declan Walsh.This is a podcast of my journey to revisit the poems that may have shaped our live...