As Múinteoir John mentioned in the lesson, a limerick is a silly, funny poem with five lines. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, an English author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the ...

You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with ...

There are lots of different types of poetry, but they often contain similar ingredients. The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a ...