INOTE 23
A report on the 2023 conference of INOTE, the Irish National Organisation for Teachers of English.
Read MoreGabriel Josipovici's 'Hamlet: Fold on Fold'
Gabriel Josipovici’s commentary in Hamlet: Fold on Fold is consistently stimulating and thought-provoking, and blessedly free of academic jargon.
Read MoreOn the Importance of Studying Poetry
The argument for the most ‘important’ subject in school being … poetry.
Read MoreThe RSC Shakespeare Complete Works
The second edition of the RSC Shakespeare Complete Works edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen is well-worth buying.
Read MoreEmily Dickinson Face to Face
Martha Dickinson Bianchi’s Emily Dickinson: Face to Face is a brilliant evocation of her aunt’s life next door in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Read More'The researchED Guide to Cognitive Science' edited by Kate Jones
The authors in Kate Jones’s selection of essays looking at the basics of cognitive science explain key concepts in a valuably accessible way.
Read More'The Art of Explanation' by Ros Atkins
Ros Atkins’s The Art of Explanation: how to communicate with clarity and confidence is a fascinating fine-grained account of how he has reached the status of one of broadcasting’s most impressive ‘explainers’.
Read MoreRos Atkins explainer: Manchester City
Ideas for the use of a Ros Atkins ‘explainer’ in English class.
Read MoreOn 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.
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