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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney, RIP

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'Seamus Heaney is trending on Twitter'. Not a sentence anyone could have predicted, but yesterday morning, Twitter suddenly lit ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Leaving Certificate 2013

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Congratulations to our recent leaving VI form, who have gained our best-ever average of 465 points per candidate in their Leaving Certific...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

Summer Reading: Canada

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First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. The robbery is the more import...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Scott Simon's Twitter vigil

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Workflowy

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No 17 in a series of occasional reviews of iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad apps useful for English literature and language learning and teaching....
Thursday, July 18, 2013

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Here's a handy Young Adult summer reading flowchart from Teach.com . And here is our own Big List.
Friday, June 21, 2013

Summer reading suggestions list for pupils

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Last year we sent out a summer reading suggestions list for pupils, and here it is again, this time revised with lots of new books.  Today...

Summer Reading List for parents, 2013

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Here is our 4th annual reading list of suggestions for parents (well, of course for all interested adults), which this time incorporates all...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Actiontrack Diary 2013

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The final entries from Ally Boyd Crotty describing the Actiontrack Showbuild, which came to a very successful conclusion on Saturday eveni...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Journeys

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Here are three more poems which were entries for the recent Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry, this time by IV former Mark Russell: The ...
Friday, June 14, 2013

The Submarine, June 2013

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The latest edition of the Library magazine, The Submarine , has just been published, and you can look at it online below via Issuu (click fo...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

The Beauty of the World

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At the recent Transition Year English Evening, Sofia McConnell read out this piece, which was composed for her TY Work Portfolio: The Beau...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Actiontrack Diary 2013: Days One & Two

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Ally Boyd Crotty and Sofia McConnell will be reporting each day this week on their experience of the Actiontrack Showbuild in the BSR. Tue...

Peter Dix Prize for Poetry, 2013

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This year's Senior Poetry Prize was won by Sadhbh Sheeran (who also won it last year ). The Peter Dix Memorial trophy is pictured.  He...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Birdsong, Catcher, Crucible: conflict in fiction and drama

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In his Transition Year Extended Essay, Samuel Clarke wrote about the theme of conflict in three very different books. For this outstandin...
Saturday, June 08, 2013

Luhrmann's 'Gatsby'

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Thoughts for those studying The Great Gatsby , prompted by Baz Luhrmann's new film version:- On one level, Luhrmann makes perfect s...
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Thursday, June 06, 2013

Leaving Certificate English 2013, Paper 2

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Candidates have been walking out smiling into the warm June sunshine this afternoon after their Higher level literature paper, despite the t...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Leaving Certificate English 2013, Paper 1

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Our former pupil William Trevor (real name Trevor Cox) featured in this morning's Higher Level English Leaving Certificate Paper 1, in t...
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