INOTE 22
Reflections on the 2022 in-person conference of the Irish National Organisation for Teachers of English.
Read MoreEmma Smith on 'Macbeth'
Some notes on the Macbeth chapter in Emma Smith’s book This is Shakespeare.
Read MoreThinking about the tragedies: 54 exercises
54 exercises to discuss key quotations when revising Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello, with the rationale behind them, and an example from a key scene in Macbeth.
Read MoreThinking about 'Macbeth'
Here are some exercises on quotations in Macbeth. They are designed for 15-minute sessions of pair-work in class, but work perfectly well for individuals. You need to know the play well, so these are for revision at a late stage. The purpose is to make your mind work hard.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet: the whole play
A set of 98 useful quotations from Macbeth, combining the five separate Quizlets in a revision series.
Read MoreKatherine Rundell's 'Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne'
Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne is a thrilling revisiting of poems that may be 400 years old, but are still fizzingly alive.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet Act 5
The fifth in a revision/retrieval series using quotations from Macbeth, by Act.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet Act 4
The fourth in a revision/retrieval series using quotations from Macbeth, by Act.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet Act 3
The third in a revision/retrieval series using quotations from Macbeth, by Act.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet: Act 2
The second in a revision/retrieval series using quotations from Macbeth, by Act.
Read MoreMacbeth Quotation Quizlet: Act 1
The first in a revision series using quotations from Macbeth, by Act.
Read MoreOn researchED Dublin 22
Reflections on researchED Dublin, Saturday 24th September 2022
Read MoreresearchED Dublin 22 Presentations
The slide presentations from researchED Dublin 2022, where available.
Read MoreresearchED Dublin 2022 Programme
Here is the programme for researchED Dublin (The Return) on Saturday 24th September. Lots of hard choices to make. Attendees will receive the paper version on registration.
Read MoreR.F. Foster's 'On Seamus Heaney'
Roy Foster’s overview of the life and career of Seamus Heaney is careful, balanced, and skilful, covering a lot of ground in a relatively short book.
Read MoreTyrant: Shakespeare on Power, by Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt’s analysis of 7 of Shakespeare’s plays which depict tyranny has become all the more dismayingly relevant since its first publication in 2018.
Read MoreresearchED Dublin presentations
A preview of the presentations at researchED Dublin on Saturday 24th September at St Columba’s College. After the keynotes, they are in alphabetical order; the timetable will be released closer to the time.
Read MoreOn Claire Keegan and Fintan O'Toole
Claire Keegan and Fintan O’Toole have written two superb books, which approach the same idea from utterly different angles.
Read MoreRecommendation Round-Up
Some brief book-recommendations: these were in The Fortnightly in the first six months of 2022, but I didn’t get around comment on them extensively for my main book page.
Read MoreOn Reading More
Thoughts on reading, and on reading more, occasioned by Ian Leslie’s Ruffian Substack: Nine Ways to Read: ideas for reading more and better books.
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