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Kinsale
After the Titanic
Antarctica
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
Grandfather
100

Where is Kinsale?

County Cork

100

Name one of the places where Ismay lived after the sinking of the Titanic

Connemara/ Liverpool

100

What type of poem is Antarctica?

It's a Villanelle

100

What is a mycologist?

Someone who specialises in fungi/ mushrooms

100

Who brought the grandfather in "from the world"?

"They"

200

When was the Battle of Kinsale? (Correct within 50 years)

1601

200

Where did Mahon's grandfather work? (Where the Titanic was built)

Harland and Wolff, Belfast

200

What is the first refrain (Lawrence Oates' last words)?

"I am just going outside and may be some time"

200
What do the mushrooms hear yet it offers no hope?
They hear a "trickle of masonry" and a "lorry changing gear"
200

What time is the grandfather up each morning "with a block of wood"?

Six

300

What line from the poem suggests that religion weighed heavily on Ireland in the past?

"Browsing on spire and bogland"

300

Name two of the items that go "thundering down"

Prams, pianos, sideboards, winches

300

What biological term is used to describe how lonely Oates looked set against the vast, snowy landscape?

He's described as a "solitary enzyme"

300

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.

300

Provide an example of onomatopoeia from the poem

"banging round the house"/ "Thumping in the hall"

400

What colour describes the slates that are “steaming in the sun.”

Sky-blue

400

What "means nothing" to Ismay?

"The showers of April/ The flowers of May"
400

What is a tercet?

A three line stanza

400

What is the name of the novel that inspired the setting of the poem?

Troubles by JG Farrell

400

What adjective, used to describe the grandfather, means cunning, perceptive and sharp?

"Shrewd"

500

Finish the quote, "We contemplate at last shining windows...

...a future forbidden to no-one."

500

Finish the line, "Heart breaks loose and rolls down like a stone...

Include me in your lamentations" (Or Commemorations)

500

Finish the quote, "He takes leave of the earthly pantomime...

Quietly, knowing it is time to go."

500

Finish the quote, "Even now there are places...

where a thought might grow"

500

Finish the quote, "Discreetly up to no good...

or banging round the house like a four year old"