On the role and selection of prescribed text lists
Some comments on the recent NCCA ‘Report on the role of prescribed text lists in Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate English and the processes involved in text selection.’
Read MorePerspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education
Perspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education, edited by Kevin Cahill and Niamh Dennehy, is a comprehensive and valuable collection of essays on the way the subject is taught and studied in Ireland.
Read More'The Great White Bard' by Farah Karim-Cooper
Professor Karim-Cooper’s The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, race and the future is a rich and provocative look at the plays with a fresh eye.
Read MoreTen Points on Leaving Certificate English
Some thoughts on where we are with Leaving Certificate English, as Senior Cycle Reform gets closer, and as the AI revolution gathers pace.
Read MoreOn the English Leaving Certificate fuss of 2009
A post published originally in June 2009, following the incident when Paper 2 Leaving Certificate English had to be rescheduled, and there was a media firestorm.
Read MoreLeaving Certificate English 2023: Paper 2
An analysis of the literature paper at Higher Level in the 2023 Leaving Certificate.
Read MoreLeaving Certificate English 2023: Paper 1
A response to Paper 1 (English Language), Higher Level, in the 2023 Leaving Certificate.
Read More'Searching for Juliet' by Sophie Duncan
Sophie 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 MoreTwo 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 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 MoreHamlet key moment video annotations
15 video annotations of key moments in Hamlet.
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 MoreMacbeth key moment video annotations
20 video/audio annotations of key moments in Macbeth.
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.
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