English Language

The book explains the contrast between the tenses and the aspects; expounds the difference between the active voice and the passive voice; elucidates the types of verbs, i.e. the main verbs, the auxiliary verbs, the participles, and the modal verbs; describes the distinction between the dynamic verbs and the static verbs; gives numerous sentence-examples that enhance and facilitate the subject’s comprehension; introduces the enhanced Timeline Table that visually represents the usage of the tense, the aspect, and the voice; and offers a contemporary, tabulated list of 316 irregular verbs.

By using this book in the ways suggested here and amplified in the text, you can be confident that you will not be faced by unexpected or unpractised kinds of questions in your English Languageexamination. The knowledge and skills covered are those tested by the examiners, and all the practice questions have been either directly taken from or exactly modelled on the papers set by the various examining boards.

This book looks at a cohort of poets who studied at University College Cork during the 1970s and early 1980s. Based on extensive interviews and archival work, the book examines the notion that the poets form a “generation” in sociological terms. It proposes an analysis of the work of the poets, studying the thematics and preoccupations that shape their oeuvre. Among the poets that figure in the book are Greg Delanty, Theo Dorgan, Seán Dunne, Gerry Murphy, Thomas McCarthy, Gregory O’Donoghue, and Maurice Riordan. The volume is prefaced by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.