Lizzie Gottlieb’s 2022 documentary Turn Every Page is pure pleasure. It traces the decades-long relationship between her father Robert, the most distinguished editor in American letters, and Robert Caro, the greatest biographer of all.
Read MoreFortnightly 168 includes a rich mixture of the fast (AI and social media) and the slow (John McGahern).
Read MoreA provocation: studying poetry is the most important activity in school.
Read MoreJottings on Generative AI and English teaching.
Read MoreSome thoughts on the first three years of English Meets at St Columba’s College.
Read MoreLinks and notes from my webinar on Tuesday 7th May 2024 for the English Community of Practice organised by Joe Rolston via Wexford Education Support Centre.
Read MoreVacancy for a full-time English teacher for the academic year 2024-25.
Read MoreFortnightly 167, the second on Substack, is now out.
Read MoreA report on the third English Meet at St Columba’s College, in May 2024.
Read MoreThoughts of a teacher on one of the books of the moment, Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.
Read MoreThe Fortnightly is now on Substack, starting with issue 166.
Read MoreA review of Carol Atherton’s Reading Lessons: the books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter, with extended comments on English teaching.
Read MoreThe Fortnightly is moving to Substack from April 20th.
Read MoreA free webinar on ideas of ‘light and dark’ in ‘King Lear’, via Wexford Education Centre, at 7.00pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024.
Read MoreA summary of teaching notes on Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, including a free 26-page downloadable guide.
Read MoreJonathan F.S. Post’s ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ in the OUP Very Short Introduction series is an admirable introduction to this most admirable of 20th century poets.
Read MoreA summary of notes on the four comparative modes in the Leaving Certificate as they might apply to Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.
Read MoreA look at Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These through the lens of George Saunders’s A Swim in the Pond in the Rain.
Read MoreTeaching notes on the final section of Small Things Like These.
Read MoreA free webinar on Wednesday 16th October 2024 for teachers of King Lear in the Leaving Certificate.
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