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PoetryBeo

10 excellent Irish poems brought to life

(i) An Spailpín Fánach

(ii) Géibheann: Caitlín Maude

(iii) An tEarrach Thiar: Máirtín Ó Direáin

(iv) Mo Ghrá-sa (idir lúibíní): Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

(v) Colscaradh: Pádraig Mac Suibhne

(vi) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill

(vii) Fill Arís: Seán Ó Riordáin

(viii) A Chlann: Máire Áine Nic Gearailt

(ix) Colmáin: Cathal Ó Searcaigh

(x) Éiceolaí: Biddy Jenkinson

Short concise notes on every poem, typical questions answered. All available in both English and Irish.

Featured in the Irish Times where it was rated 9/10, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Galway Independent, World Irish and on Silicon Republic. The app features the poems texts, subtitled video and audio recorded performances, study notes, quick revision memos, sample questions, a game, and English translations of the meanings. Ideal for the oral as well as written exams.

It is an interactive app with audio and subtitled video with performances in Munster, Connaught and Ulster dialects. Its an app for mobiles that will allow you study anywhere, broken down in to small pieces, explained and translated.

Why the video? Poems were meant to be spoken aloud. One of the goals of the project is to bring the poetry alive (beo). It is well understood by experts that only 7% of communication is verbal. 38% is conveyed through the quality of the voice- tone, volume, speed and pitch. 55% through posture, movement gestures, facial expressions, breathing and skin colour changes.

(Ray L.Birdwhistell, Kinetics and Context, University of Pennsylvania 1970)

The app features:

The poems.Video and audio recordings of the poems, with subtitles, in the dialects of the poets.

Detailed notes with a "Bearla Button" that allows the user to switch between Irish and English.

* Minú/Meaning of the poems.

* A short synopsis of each poem.

* Short memo's or cliff notes, similar to the synopsis, designed for last minute revision.

* Analysis of the poems, questions and answers graded for higher and ordinary levels.

* A note about the poet's background.

* A glossary.

* "End Notes": discussions about the poems and their context that give the user an appreciation for the poem, poet and language.

* The videos can be played from the notes pages and the user can scroll through the the text.

*The PoetryBeo game helps you get familiar with the texts.

Watching the performances brings the text to life: Share in the emotion, the lament, the loss of a lover, the sense of place and home of an Islander, the pathos of a caged beast, the confusion of a cat in a high rise leading to disaster to the sound of a coo from a dove, the simple logic of a failed relationship, a mother's wish for her children, a woman turning the tables on a chauvinist man and a poet returning to find his identity and himself through his language.

If you just love poetry or Ireland and want a unique experience - then you will enjoy this app. Easy to use and making the poetry easy to understand it was developed with a wide range of users in mind. The videos of actors performing the poems bring them to life and will help you prepare. The app breaks study of the poetry into 'bite size chunks'. The app is designed to engage you and help you understand. Graphics hint at elements of the poems meaning. The foundation of the app is the work of some Ireland's finest poets.

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