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'The Planter's Daughter - by Austin Clarke (S1E10) My Poetry Readings with Declan Walsh
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About the PoemThe society depicted in the poem , The Planters Daughter, is one reminiscent of images of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A planter was usually an English or Scotsman, brought in by the British, who bought confiscated land in Ireland quite cheaply , who then employed local people to work on it In effect, he was the local landlord, living in the ‘Big House’ , often seen as people of wealth and be of higher class – and wo...
About the PoemThe society depicted in the poem , The Planters Daughter, is one reminiscent of images of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A planter was usually an English or Scotsman, brought in by the British, who bought confiscated land in Ireland quite cheaply , who then employed local people to work on it In effect, he was the local landlord, living in the ‘Big House’ , often seen as people of wealth and be of higher class – and wo...
6 min