WB YEATS ONCE said: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” But oh if he only knew the fire he lit under Leaving Certs yesterday.

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In the months leading up to the exams, it was predicted that Yeats would turn up on English Paper 2 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.

It wasn’t a completely wild guess, but it didn’t work out this time. Yeats did not appear, and the Leaving Certs are going BUCK WILD over it.

Plenty of NSFW language to follow, if you wish to clutch your pearls in advance.

Some students searched and searched the exam papers for any tiny hint of Yeats

Others wondered if his non-appearance would be their undoing

Lighting a candle for Yeats to come up tomorrow 🙏🏻 #yeats #leavingcert

A photo posted by Ais Ní Chonaill (@aislingmoconnell) on Jun 8, 2016 at 8:38am PDT

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But most of them showed a very good knowledge of his poetry

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Which makes it all the more tragic.

And then there were all those still working through the ‘denial’ and ‘anger’ stages of grief

English study #leavingcert #durcan #yeats#plath #dickinson #culturalcontext #generalvisionandviewpoint #nicelearquestion #characteroflear 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

A photo posted by @leavingcertificate2k16 on Jun 8, 2016 at 2:51pm PDT

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