Seamus Heaney is always welcome on a Leaving Cert English Paper 2, and the poet didn’t disappoint this year. Paul McCormack, a teacher at the Institute of Education, Dublin, agreed that “the Heaney question was also lovely” but that Durcan was “ a little more challenging”. Students also had answer questions on an unseen poem, Louise Greig’s How to Construct an Albatross. After a difficult year for students, Mr McCormack described the paper overall as a “welcome shelter from the storm”. Mr McCormack described the two King Lear questions as “ beautiful and subtle”, although students “were challenged to think carefully and use their argumentative writing skills effectively”.

Source: Irish Independent June 10, 2021 18:33 UTC