'In the Real World'
All too often teachers have to listen to that condescending cliché ‘In the real world’.
Read MoreFortnightly 180
The first Fortnightly of 2025, number 180 since 2016.
Read MoreThomas Newkirk's 'The Art of Slow Reading'
A revisiting of Thomas Newkirk’s book The Art of Slow Reading in the new AI world.
Read MoreAI thinkers for English teachers
Links to thinkers about artificial intelligence, whose writings I find helpful in navigating its implications for English.
Read More#edchatie Mondays on Bluesky
A holding page for details of #edchatie discussions on Bluesky on Monday evenings: every two weeks in term-time for educators in Ireland.
Read MorePosts of the Year, 2024
A collection of 25 pieces of writing from 2024.
Read More'Small Things Like These' read by Andrew Bennett
An account of the ‘Four Rivers’ staged reading of Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These.
Read MoreBooks of the Year 2024
My choices as Books of the Year 2024 in several categories.
Read MoreReading Round-Up, July to December 2024
Reading Round-Up, July to December 2024: books which I didn’t write about at length but which appeared in The Fortnightly Substack.
Read MoreThe 'King Lear scene by scene' series
Links to all the podcasts and transcripts from the ‘King Lear scene by scene’ series.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 12
The final episode of King Lear scene by scene looks at the cataclysmic last scene of the tragedy,
Read MoreFortnightly 179: Books of the Year
Fortnightly 179 features a round-up of best books of the year.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 11
The penultimate episode of the King Lear scene by scene podcast looks at the lull before the storm: Act 4 scene 7, and Act 5 scenes 1 and 2.
Read MoreFortnightly 178
The penultimate Fortnightly of 2024, starting with Richard Flanagan’s extraordinary Question 7.
Read More'Small Things Like These': contingencies and decisions
Another in a series of essays on Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These, this time examining ideas of contingency and decision-making, with references to King Lear, Brian Klaas, Robert Frost and W.B. Yeats on Maud Gonne.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 10
In episode 10 I whizz through three quick scenes first - Act 4, scenes 3, 4 and 5, and then pay proper attention to the immense and complex scene 6.
Read MoreThe Occasional 5
The fifth edition of The Occasional, close cousin to The Fortnightly for its paid subscribers, has lots of book recommendations.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 9
Episode 9 of the King Lear scene by scene podcast looks at the first two scenes in Act 4, the first in the immediate aftermath of Gloucester’s blinding, the second an opportunity to look at the character development of Albany throughout the play.
Read MoreFortnightly 177
Fortnightly 177 features football’s Video Assistant Referee system, and how it relates to … Leaving Certificate reform.
Read More#edchatie on Bluesky
Irish teachers miss the #edchatie discussion days, and now that we’re moving to Bluesky, here’s a proposal.
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