Cork poet whose work featured in Leaving Cert gets 'flurry' of messages from students

Victoria Kennefick said she feels very honoured to have her poem appear in the Leaving Cert exam. Picture: Alison Miles/OSM

A Cork poet, whose work appeared in this year’s Leaving Cert exam, has had a deluge of messages from students, asking "rather sweetly" if they interpreted her poem correctly.

Victoria Kennefick, a native of Shanagarry, Co Cork, now living in Co Kerry, said she feels very honoured to have her poem ‘Guest Room’ from her book Eat Or We Both Starve appear as the 2023 unseen poem on the higher level English paper 2 exam.