Students preparing for the Leaving Certificate exams this June should make sure not to miss our new series. This five-episode series, created by Connemara Community Radio, features programmes which will focus on the eight poets on this year’s Leaving Certificate course. Programmes on Paper 1 (the essay paper) and King Lear will also air.
Programmes will be broadcast on on Tuesdays at 5pm, repeating on Saturdays at 1pm. The first programme will air on March 15th.
The schedule for this programmes is as follows:
| DATE | POET | PRESENTER |
| 15th March | W.B. Yeats | Denis Creaven |
| Emily Dickinson | Frank Cleary | |
| 22nd March | Eilean Ní Chuilleanain | Denis Creaven |
| Sylvia Plath | Cathy Sweeney | |
| 29th March | Paul Durcan | Denis Creaven |
| Essay Paper | Cathy Sweeney | |
| 17th April | T.S. Eliot | Denis Creaven |
| Elizabeth Bishop | Cian Hogan | |
| 1st May | Philip Larkin | Frank Cleary |
| King Lear | Cian Hogan |