Billy O’Callaghan’s new novel The Paper Man is a beautifully-crafted story of the now-forgotten Austrian footballing genius Matthias Sindelar and his young lover Rebekah, connecting Vienna in the 1930s and Cork City in the 30s and 80s.
Read MoreSophie Duncan’s Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine is a wide-ranging account of the many afterlives of one of literature’s most famous protagonists.
Read MoreKing Lear and Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’ were created at the same time, in two different countries, by two artists who never met each other: but they share a lot.
Read MoreTwo free webinars in the 2023-24 academic year: on Hamlet, and on cognitive science (an introduction).
Read MoreJonathan Bate’s Bright Star, Green Light, a parallel-biography of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, is essential reading for English teachers.
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.
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