Kinsale
Where is Kinsale?
County Cork
Name one of the places where Ismay lived after the sinking of the Titanic
Connemara/ Liverpool
What type of poem is Antarctica?
It's a Villanelle
What is a mycologist?
Someone who specialises in fungi/ mushrooms
Who brought the grandfather in "from the world"?
"They"
When was the Battle of Kinsale? (Correct within 50 years)
1601
Where did Mahon's grandfather work? (Where the Titanic was built)
Harland and Wolff, Belfast
What is the first refrain (Lawrence Oates' last words)?
"I am just going outside and may be some time"
What time is the grandfather up each morning "with a block of wood"?
Six
What line from the poem suggests that religion weighed heavily on Ireland in the past?
"Browsing on spire and bogland"
Name two of the items that go "thundering down"
Prams, pianos, sideboards, winches
What biological term is used to describe how lonely Oates looked set against the vast, snowy landscape?
He's described as a "solitary enzyme"
What is the significance of the line "at the flash-bulb firing square"?
It represents the fact that the media capitalise on tragedy, yet offer no real help for victims.
Provide an example of onomatopoeia from the poem
"banging round the house"/ "Thumping in the hall"
What colour describes the slates that are “steaming in the sun.”
Sky-blue
What "means nothing" to Ismay?
What is a tercet?
A three line stanza
What is the name of the novel that inspired the setting of the poem?
Troubles by JG Farrell
What adjective, used to describe the grandfather, means cunning, perceptive and sharp?
"Shrewd"
Finish the quote, "We contemplate at last shining windows...
...a future forbidden to no-one."
Finish the line, "Heart breaks loose and rolls down like a stone...
Include me in your lamentations" (Or Commemorations)
Finish the quote, "He takes leave of the earthly pantomime...
Quietly, knowing it is time to go."
Finish the quote, "Even now there are places...
where a thought might grow"
Finish the quote, "Discreetly up to no good...
or banging round the house like a four year old"