Preparing for Leaving Certificate English, 2023
A few ideas about effective ideas in preparing for the English Leaving Certificate: mostly things which don’t take much time.
Read MoreA few ideas about effective ideas in preparing for the English Leaving Certificate: mostly things which don’t take much time.
Read MoreA report on the second English Meet, with 6 English teachers presenting ideas from their teaching practice.
Read MoreThe UCD Special Collections exhibition ‘Heaney & the Classics’ has been launched, with Roy Foster (pictured) giving the key address.
Read MoreA talk on Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
Read More5-minute talks on relatively ‘lesser’ characters in Hamlet.
Read More15 video/audio annotations of key moments in The Great Gatsby.
Read MoreA recent paper by Craig Skerritt of the Manchester Institute of Education examines the document Looking at Our School (2022) with a sharp eye.
Read MoreElizabeth Boyle’s account of 2020 is a startling mixture of personal, cultural and literary history.
Read More15 video annotations of key moments in Hamlet.
Read MoreNotes on the 2023 ASTI Education Conference on Reform
Read MoreThe plan to move English (and Irish) Paper 1 in the Leaving Certificate has been ‘deferred’. A response.
Read MoreAnthony Joseph’s Sonnets for Albert deals with the troubled heritage of his father’s past with honesty, control and grace.
Read MoreMarion Turner’s The Wife of Bath a biography is a thrilling follow-up to her major biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, placing the fictional character in her literary and cultural context, and then looking at her many and persistent ‘afterlives’ through history.
Read More20 video/audio annotations of key moments in Macbeth.
Read MoreMy Father’s House, Joseph O’Connor’s fictional treatment of the life of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, is particularly brilliant in its evocation of Rome and the Vatican under Nazi occupation.
Read MoreIf you’re interested in presenting at the second English Meet, on Wednesday 3rd May 2023, 7pm to 9pm, get in touch!
Read MoreA post reflecting on where we are we right now with the proposed changes to Leaving Certificate English.
Read MoreArticle on researchED Dublin 2022 from ASTIR magazine, January 2023.
Read More15 short talks on elements of poetry, using one or two poems in each case.
Read MoreAn audio interview with the late Professor Terry Dolan about the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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