'Youth' by Kevin Curran
Kevin Curran’s new novel Youth captures four teenagers in contemporary Balbriggan, on the cusp of adulthood.
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 MoreAn English Lawn, July 1871
A poem based on the opening of Henry James’s masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady.
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 MoreBilly O'Callaghan's 'The Paper Man'
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 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 MoreCaravaggio and 'King Lear'
King 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 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 MoreSeamus Heaney and the Classics
The UCD Special Collections exhibition ‘Heaney & the Classics’ has been launched, with Roy Foster (pictured) giving the key address.
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 MoreLooking at Our School 2022: a quality framework
A 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 'Fierce Appetites'
Elizabeth Boyle’s account of 2020 is a startling mixture of personal, cultural and literary history.
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