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2010

SINGLE TEXTS

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (H/O)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (H/O)
Sive by John B Keane (O)
Lamb by Bernard McLaverty (O)
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore (O)
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz (O)
King Lear by William Shakespeare (H/O)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (H/O)
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin (H/O)

POETS

Eavan Boland
T.S Eliot
Patrick Kavanagh
John Keats
Michael Longley
Adrienne Rich
Derek Walcott
William Butler Yeats

The Comparative Modes are:

Higher Level: i) Literary Genre
ii) The General Vision and Viewpoint
iii) The Cultural Context

Ordinary Level:
i) Hero/Heroine/Villain
ii) Theme
iii) Social Setting

2011

SINGLE TEXTS
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy (O)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté (H/O)
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (H/O)
How Many Miles To Babylon by Jennifer Johnston (O)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (O)
A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy (H/O)
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey (O)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (H/O)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (H/O)


Comparative Modes
Higher Level:
i) Theme or Issue
ii) The General Vision and Viewpoint
iii) The Cultural Context


Ordinary Level
i) Relationships
ii) Theme
iii) Social Setting


POETS

Eavan Boland
Emily Dickenson
Robert Frost
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Patrick Kavanagh
Adrienne Rich
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats