Prayer for the Children of Longing (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

Dublin's north inner city community

Memorial for young drug addiction victims at Christmas tree lighting

2009, 'Painting Rain'

Suffering, death, social justice, community healing

Free verse with uneven rhyming

Hope, light, and renewal

Repetition of words/phrases at beginning of successive lines

'Here at the heart', 'Grant us', 'The streets', 'Let their names'

Scream, siren, needle, knife

Active agents that defeated/failed the young people

Natural vs urban

Trinity College & Eastern Washington University

Ireland Professor of Poetry

Creates prayer-like rhythm

Young people who died from drug addiction