Two webinars
Two free webinars in the 2023-24 academic year: on Hamlet, and on cognitive science (an introduction).
Read MoreJonathan Bate's 'Bright Star, Green Light'
Jonathan Bate’s Bright Star, Green Light, a parallel-biography of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is essential reading for English teachers.
Read MorePreparing 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 MoreReport on the 2023 English Meet
A report on the second English Meet, with 6 English teachers presenting ideas from their teaching practice.
Read MoreSeamus Heaney and the Classics
The UCD Special Collections exhibition ‘Heaney & the Classics’ has been launched, with Roy Foster (pictured) giving the key address.
Read MoreThe Wild Swans at Coole, by W.B. Yeats
A talk on Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
Read More10 characters in 'Hamlet'
5-minute talks on relatively ‘lesser’ characters in Hamlet.
Read More'The Great Gatsby': 15 key moment video annotations
15 video/audio annotations of key moments in The Great Gatsby.
Read MoreLooking at Our School 2022: a quality framework
A 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 'Fierce Appetites'
Elizabeth Boyle’s account of 2020 is a startling mixture of personal, cultural and literary history.
Read MoreHamlet key moment video annotations
15 video annotations of key moments in Hamlet.
Read MoreASTI Education Conference 2023
Notes on the 2023 ASTI Education Conference on Reform
Read MoreOn the withdrawal of the Paper 1 Plan
The plan to move English (and Irish) Paper 1 in the Leaving Certificate has been ‘deferred’. A response.
Read MoreAnthony Joseph's 'Sonnets for Albert'
Anthony Joseph’s Sonnets for Albert deals with the troubled heritage of his father’s past with honesty, control and grace.
Read More'The Wife of Bath: a biography' by Marion Turner
Marion 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 MoreMacbeth key moment video annotations
20 video/audio annotations of key moments in Macbeth.
Read MoreJoseph O'Connor's 'My Father's House'
My 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 MoreEnglish Meet 2023
If you’re interested in presenting at the second English Meet, on Wednesday 3rd May 2023, 7pm to 9pm, get in touch!
Read MoreOn Senior Cycle reform in English: follow-up
A post reflecting on where we are we right now with the proposed changes to Leaving Certificate English.
Read MoreresearchED Dublin in 'Astir'
Article on researchED Dublin 2022 from ASTIR magazine, January 2023.
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