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Friday, March 28, 2008

The Bush Tragedy

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A month ago we commented on the fascinating use of language in the American Presidential primary season. Recently language has again become...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Shakespeare in Venice?

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Richard Owen of the London Times today reports on a book by Italian writers in his article ' Hath Shakespeare been a tourist in Venice?...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Front Row on Shakespeare

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Last night BBC Radio 4's ' Front Row ', presented by Mark Lawson, examined recent literature on Shakespeare, and the 'dramat...
Friday, March 14, 2008

End of Term

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We break today for the Easter holidays, resuming on Monday 7th April. Next term, of course, includes the Leaving and Junior Certificate exam...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Macbeth at the Empty Space : Review

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On Monday night we went to see Selina Cartmell 's inventive and fast-paced production of Macbeth at the Empty Space (she previously dir...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Louise C.Callaghan

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On World Book Day last Thursday , the poet Louise Callaghan gave readings to three of our forms, and Fiona Boyd of Transition Year now repor...

Guardian Poets

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Fast on the heels of the London Independent 's poetry series come the Guardian 's seven booklets, starting today with T.S.Eliot (i...

Habitat for Humanity, 2008

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Good luck to our 15 pupils, and six staff (including the Head of English) who early tomorrow morning travel to rural Hungary with the Habita...
Monday, March 10, 2008

The Greatest Pleasure in Life

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In his recent English exam, Fred Mann of Transition Year wrote about the greatest pleasure in his life - relaxing in his house in Wales :- A...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Selina Cartmell

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In today's Sunday Tribune , Colin Murphy interviews Selina Cartmell, the young director of the Macbeth production at the Empty Space w...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

More Poetry

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The London Independent today starts a 14-day series of booklets called The Great Poets . Today, Chaucer, followed by Shakespeare, Donne, ...
Friday, March 07, 2008

The Catcher in the Rye : a sequel

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One of the texts we study with our Transition Year is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye . Hye-Seung Jeon wrote a piece imagining the aft...
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Macbeth at the Empty Space

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Yesterday in the Irish Times , Peter Crawley reviewed the Siren Productions' version of Macbeth at the Empty Space, which we will be go...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Actiontrack II workshops

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Yesterday, Patrick Tice was one of the II formers who spent the morning at a drama workshop in the BSR with the Actiontrack team . Patrick ...

Actiontrack report

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Our first report on the Actiontrack workshops comes from Mena Fitzgibbon : On Tuesday the 2nd form sets A and B had our first day of Action...

World Book Day 2008

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Today is World Book Day. Above, the final of three designs by junior pupils for the bookmarks the English Department and Library have jointl...

There's Something About Mary

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Last night the former MEP Mary Banotti , a frequent visitor to the College, launched her new book There's Something about Mary , a serie...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

'Secret' by Louise C.Callaghan

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Our Poem of the Week (coinciding with World Book Day tomorrow) is Louise C. Callaghan's 'Secret'. Tomorrow Louise is our guest ...