Cora, Auntie (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

'Cora, Auntie' by Paula Meehan

Unbreakable bonds between women across generations

Bottle of morphine & bottle of Jameson

Humour as weapon against Death (medieval combat metaphor)

Glory - dignified resistance, not passive suffering

Greek origin, maiden, promising blossom/spring

Persephone/Kore, spring goddess taken to underworld

Youth, love, sensuality & death in Irish tradition

Women's influence reaching narrator across generations

Multiple generations of women in the family

Inevitability of mortality - all becomes dust

Butler Award for Poetry & Marten Toonder Award

Jousting & medieval combat

Sequins, beads, earrings, charm bracelet - Cora's remnants

Cora's journey: vibrant youth to emigrant to England