tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305578312024-02-26T17:34:12.223+00:00SCC ENGLISHThe English Department of St Columba's College, Whitechurch, Dublin 16, Ireland. Pupils' writing, news, poems, drama, essays, podcasts, book recommendations, language, edtech ... and more. Since 2006.SCC English Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870512952191475420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2011125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-55625452234002179712024-02-26T14:44:00.003+00:002024-02-26T14:44:53.800+00:00Teaching 'Small Things Like These'<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGcFkG3VW6O0-jFqXG0FJZLPKkJNFmVak0bkpAkU-czoesC4-tAwJFPFoN4mNLg085oUbKeTj-Vmv1UVBlz9bdjdSBQwaJQdqtjmMsJMW0imfdIcNiUhDUotvsQiPWWEkRWfP7fFcg8S5Ie8ZlW-P0SicO1KIQttGYGh8b4goUXPDuFtmONk_Bw/s1260/smallthings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="840" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGcFkG3VW6O0-jFqXG0FJZLPKkJNFmVak0bkpAkU-czoesC4-tAwJFPFoN4mNLg085oUbKeTj-Vmv1UVBlz9bdjdSBQwaJQdqtjmMsJMW0imfdIcNiUhDUotvsQiPWWEkRWfP7fFcg8S5Ie8ZlW-P0SicO1KIQttGYGh8b4goUXPDuFtmONk_Bw/s320/smallthings.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Secondary English teachers who are looking for guidance on teaching Claire Keegan's short novel <i>Small Things Like These </i>should <a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/tag/Small+Things+Like+These" target="_blank">head over here</a>, where you will find online resources, reviews, and a detailed series of teaching notes on the book. A webinar follows in September 2024. This is particularly for the comparative section in the Leaving Certificate exam.</span><br /></span></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-6087649722053482162024-02-26T14:41:00.000+00:002024-02-26T14:41:06.650+00:00Articles of the Week
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is an ongoing listing of links to the Articles of the Week used with our Leaving Certificate pupils, from September 2013 onwards.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
idea came from the American teacher and writer Kelly Gallagher, and it
fits very well into the Leaving course, getting pupils used to reading
interesting articles and thus helping them in both the comprehension and
composition sections of their Paper 1, as well as expanding their
knowledge base and vocabulary and providing interesting topics for discussion.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs05f2DPTXs8futYti8gVueWSYbRZXFcKaRIbTtXg99IECdy8tf42TRVcQh_0LxaukkaoFlQX-bST3Fxw-HCkIjltjWRMryPumi5fKuss6ngt2zPZdJT1M4XVoJV8tAA3VE0ac/s1600/Readicide-9781571107800.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs05f2DPTXs8futYti8gVueWSYbRZXFcKaRIbTtXg99IECdy8tf42TRVcQh_0LxaukkaoFlQX-bST3Fxw-HCkIjltjWRMryPumi5fKuss6ngt2zPZdJT1M4XVoJV8tAA3VE0ac/s200/Readicide-9781571107800.jpg" width="132" /></a>Click <a href="http://www.kellygallagher.org/article-of-the-week/">here</a> for Gallagher's current articles, and read more about the theory behind the scheme in his excellent book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Readicide-Schools-Killing-Reading-about/dp/1571107800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362563612&sr=8-1">Readicide: how schools are killing reading and what you can do about it</a></i>. Pupils have to mark up the articles with annotations before class discussion.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2024: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-people-get-sucked-into-misinformation-rabbit-holes-and-how-to-get-them-out-223717">How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes – and how to get them out</a>' by Emily Booth and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, University of Technology Sydney, The Conversation, February 23rd 2024 [technology, psychology].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2023: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/13/the-case-against-pets-is-it-time-to-give-up-our-cats-and-dogs" target="_blank">The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?</a>' by Ellie Violet Bramley, Guardian, September 13th 2023 [animal welfare}</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2023: '‘<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e8136a05-c040-41ef-93cc-78fae1afee7a">Edtech’ offers no escape from reality</a>' by John Thornhill, <i>Financial Times</i>, September 7th 2023 [education, technology].</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2023: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/why-winter-walks-at-the-seaside-are-good-for-you-197719 ">Why winter walks at the seaside are good for you</a>' by Nick Davies and Sean J. Gammon, The Conversation, January 13th 2023 [mental health].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2022: '<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2022/10/15/sean-moncrieff-too-much-choice-is-making-us-unhappy-and-overwhelmed/">There’s too much of everything. And it’s making us unhappy</a>.’ by Seán Moncrieff, Irish Times, October 15th October 2022 [parenting, adolescence, consumerism]. <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2022: '<a href="https://theweek.com/nuclear-power/1016367/a-comeback-for-nuclear-power">A comeback for nuclear power</a>' by The Week staff writers, September 4th 2022 [nuclear power, economics, environment].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2022: '<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/08/30/young-people-drowning-in-a-sea-of-disregard/">Why is our Government so happy to ignore the financial nightmare young people face?</a>' by Gemma Haverty,<i> Irish Times</i>, August 30th 2022 [economics, society].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 2022: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/a-year-of-hunger-how-the-russia-ukraine-war-is-worsening-climate-linked-food-shortages-181160">A year of hunger: how the Russia-Ukraine war is worsening climate-linked food shortages</a>' by Nenad Naumovski, The Conversation (Australia), April 26th 2022 [war, economics, climate change].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2021: '<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d666b9a8-f2a9-4a51-9c85-fb4223c556b0">The climate won’t wait. We need a carbon tax now<br />The time for handwringing is definitively over</a>' by Tim Harford, Financial Times, October 29th 2021 [environment, climate change].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2021: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/facebook-instagram-zuckerberg-teenagers">Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone'</a> by Siva Vaidhyanathan, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 18th 2021 [social media].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2021: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/narcissists-theres-more-than-one-type-and-our-research-reveals-what-makes-each-tick-165636">Narcissists: there's more than one type</a>' by Nikhila Mahadevan, <i>The Conversation</i>, August 5th 2021 [psychology].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2021: '<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d0948e4b-4dc6-4cdc-b357-28690d1edcbb">We must stop Covid shutting girls out of school forever</a>' by Malala Yousafzai, <i>Financial Times</i>, April 29th 2021 [pandemic, education] <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2021: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/sang-culture-how-a-reluctant-russian-singer-became-the-hero-of-young-pessimists-across-china-160080">Sang culture: how a reluctant Russian singer became the hero of young pessimists across China</a>' by Xiaoning Lu, <i>The Conversation</i>, April 30th 2021 [culture, internet, China].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2020: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/08/remembrance-day-amnesia-patriotic-stories">Remembrance Day is an exercise in collective amnesia</a>' by Samuel Earle, <i>The Guardian</i>, November 8th 2020 [history, politics, remembrance].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2020: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/is-donald-trump-a-bully-or-bold-protector-that-depends-on-whom-you-ask">Is Donald Trump a bully or bold protector? That depends on whom you ask</a>' by Arlie Hochschild, <i>The Guardian</i>, October 10th 2020 [politics, bullying].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2020: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/to-combat-conspiracy-theories-teach-critical-thinking-and-community-values-147314">To combat conspiracy theories teach critical thinking – and community</a>' by Thomas Roulet, <i>The Conversation</i>, October 2nd 2020 [conspiracy, social media, education].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2020: '<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/close-encounters/202009/what-can-we-learn-about-people-their-social-media">What can we learn about people from their social media?'</a><i> </i>by Gwendolyn Sideman,<i> Psychology Today</i>, September 21st 2020 [social media, psychology, behaviour].<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2020: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/oxford-scientists-these-are-final-steps-were-taking-to-get-our-coronavirus-vaccine-approved-144623">Oxford scientists: these are the final steps we're taking to get our coronavirus vaccine approved</a>' by Rebecca Ashfield and Pedro Folegatti, <i>The Conversation</i>, September 8th 2020 [science, vaccines] </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2020: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/are-firstborns-really-natural-leaders-126215">Are First-Borns Really Natural Leaders?</a>' by Clara Sabolova, The Conversation, February 7th [parenting, upbringing, nurture].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2020: <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-moral-authority-does-the-us-have-to-kill-suleimani-1.4135047?__vfz=rtw_top_pages%3D11000002670848">'What moral authority does the US have to kill Suleimani?</a>' by Breda O'Brien, <i>The Irish Times</i>, January 11th 2020 [morality, politics, conflict}. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2019: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/a-psychotherapist-explains-why-some-adults-are-reacting-badly-to-young-climate-strikers-125079">A psychotherapist explains why some adults are reacting badly to young climate strikers</a>' by Caroline Hickman, The Conversation, October 11th 2019 [climate change, teenagers]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2019: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/curiosity-were-studying-the-brain-to-help-you-harness-it-122351">Curiosity: we're studying the brain to help you harness it</a>' by by Ashvanti Valji and Matthias Gruber, The Conversation, September 13th 2019 [neuroscience, learning].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2019: '<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/california-high-school-found-students-cellphones-too-distracting-so-they-n1044636">A California high school found students' cellphones too distracting, so they're locking the devices up</a>' by Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, August 21st 2019 [education, learning, teenagers, technology].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2019: '<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/well/move/how-exercise-affects-our-memory.html">How Exercise Affects Our Memor</a>y' by Gretchen Reynolds, <i>New York Times</i>, May 1st 2019 [exercise, physiology, neuroscience]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2019: '<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/aviation-is-the-red-meat-in-the-greenhouse-gas-sandwich-1.3773671">Aviation is the red meat in the greenhouse gas sandwich</a>' by John Gibbons, the <i>Irish Times</i>, January 29th 2019 [environment, aviation]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2019: '<a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/filling-silence-digital-noise/">Filling the Silence with Digital Noise</a>' by the Nielsen Norman Group, November 18th 2018 [technology, learning]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2018: "<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/window-for-saving-earth-from-ecological-annihilation-closing-1.3685935">Window for saving Earth from ecological annihilation closing</a>" by John Gibbons, the <i>Irish Times</i>, October 16th 2018 [ecology, environment]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2018: "'<a href="https://theconversation.com/fortnite-teaches-the-wrong-lessons-104443">Fortnite' teaches the wrong lessons</a>" by Nicholas Tampio, The Conversation, October 12th 2018 [gaming, adolescence, technology]/ </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2018: "<a href="https://theconversation.com/why-true-horror-movies-are-about-more-than-things-going-bump-in-the-night-104278">Why true horror movies are about more than things going bump in the night</a>" by Aislinn Clarke, The Conversation [film, horror, comedy], October 3rd 2018.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2018: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/is-serena-williams-right-a-linguist-on-the-extra-challenges-women-face-in-moments-of-anger-102998">Is Serena Williams right? A linguist on the extra challenges women face in moments of anger</a>' by Kieran File, <i>The Conversation</i>, September 11th 2018 [women, gender, sport].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2018: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/joe-moran-pleasures-of-slow-reading">Why you should read this article slowly</a>' by Joe Moran, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 14th 2018 [reading, internet].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2018: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-ideal-school-would-put-childrens-development-before-league-tables-102418">The ideal school would put children's development before league tables</a>' by Sue Roffey, <i>The Conversation</i>, September 17th 2018. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2018: '<a href="https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/another-angle-for-the-love-of-god-put-down-the-phones-37264960.html">Another Angle: For the love of God, put down the phones</a>' by Adrian Weckler, <i>Irish Independent</i>, August 20th 2018 [technology, phone].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2018: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/neuroscience-is-unlocking-mysteries-of-the-teenage-brain-92553">Neuroscience is unlocking mysteries of the teenage brain</a>' by Lucy Foulkes, The Conversation, April 23rd 2018 [adolescence, neuroscience]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">March 2018: '<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Ftim-wu&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection">The Tyranny of Convenience</a>' by Tim Yu, <i>New York Times</i>, February 16th 2018 [modern life, technology].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2018: "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/07/21/the-death-of-reading-is-threatening-the-soul/?utm_term=.a7b8463c1f1d">The death of reading is threatening the soul</a>" by Philip Yancey, <i>Washington Post</i>, July 21st 2017 [reading, books, internet]. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2018: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/why-more-men-are-wearing-makeup-than-ever-before-88347">Why more men are wearing makeup than ever before</a>' by Glen Jankowski, <i>The Conversation</i>, January 15th 2018 [make-up, masculinity].</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2018: '<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/2017-progress-illiteracy-poverty.html">Why 2017 was the best year in human history</a>' by Nicholas Kristof, <i>The New York Times</i>, January 6, 2018 [history, progress, health]. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2017: '<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-boys-must-behave-if-women-are-to-be-safe-1.3273940">Boys must behave if women are to be safe</a>' by Fintan O'Toole, <i>The Irish Times</i>, October 31, 2017.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2017: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/21/insects-giant-ecosystem-collapsing-human-activity-catastrophe">A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans</a>' by Michael McCarthy, <i>The Guardian</i>, October 21, 2017. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2017: '<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/728581/cant-stop-mass-murder">We can't stop mass murder</a>' by Shikha Dalmia, <i>The Week</i>, October 6, 2017. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2017: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/oct/06/what-every-teacher-should-know-about-memory">What every teacher should know about ... memory</a>' by Bradley Busch, <i>The Guardian</i>, October 6, 2017 [learning, memory, teaching].</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2017: '<a href="https://theconversation.com/think-the-worlds-in-a-mess-here-are-four-things-you-can-do-about-it-68789">Think the world is in a mess: here are 4 things you can do about it</a>' by Alexandre Christoyannapoulos. <i>The Conversation</i>, November 16, 2016 [activism, citizenship, economics].</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2017: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/23/the-power-of-silence-in-the-smartphone-age">The power of silence in the smartphone age</a>' by Erling Kagge, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 23rd 2017 [technology]. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2017: '<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/08/health/fake-images-posts-disaster-trnd/index.html">5 reasons why people share fake photos during disasters</a>' by A.J. Willingham, CNN.com, September 8th 2017 [journalism, psychology, social media].</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2017: '<a href="https://inews.co.uk/explainers/iq/horizon-what-makes-a-psychopath-bbc-essi-viding/">Can you identify the psychopaths in your life?</a>' by Rob Hastings, iNews, August 29th 2017 [psychology]. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/roads-car-use-health-driving">Our </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/roads-car-use-health-driving">roads are choke</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/roads-car-use-health-driving">d. We're on the verge of carmag</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/roads-car-use-health-driving">eddon</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">' by George Monbiot, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 20th 2016<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> [en<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">v<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ironment, transport].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 20<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/26/girls-believe-brilliance-is-a-male-trait-research-into-gender-stereotypes-shows">Gir</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/26/girls-believe-brilliance-is-a-male-trait-research-into-gender-stereotypes-shows">ls bel</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/26/girls-believe-brilliance-is-a-male-trait-research-into-gender-stereotypes-shows">ieve brilliance i</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/26/girls-believe-brilliance-is-a-male-trait-research-into-gender-stereotypes-shows">s a male trait</a>' by N<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">icola D<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">avi<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s, The G<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">uardian, Jan<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">uary 27th 2017.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2017: '<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/well/family/what-do-teenagers-want-potted-plant-parents.html?_r=0">What do teenagers want? Potte</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/well/family/what-do-teenagers-want-potted-plant-parents.html?_r=0">d plant parents</a>' by Lisa Damour, <i>New York Times</i>, December 14th 2016 [adolescence, parenting<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">].</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2016: '<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article112785498.html">Trump makes it easy to vote for Her</a>' by Carl Hiaasen<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <i>Miami Herald</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, November 6th 2016 [politics, America].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2016: '<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37444982">How being alon</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37444982">e may be the key to rest</a>' by Claudia Hammond, BBC, Sept<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ember 27th 2016 [rest, reading, intro<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">version<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2016: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/03/why-parents-are-getting-angrier-children-are-bored-out-of-their-skulls-with-real-life">'Why Parents are Getting Angrier</a>' by Nicola Skinner, <i>Th</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>e Guardian</i>, September 3rd 2016 [parenting, psychology, childhood<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">].</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Se<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ptember 2016: '<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/burkini-beach-ban-must-french-muslim-women-become-invisible-1.2764407">Burkini beach ban: </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/burkini-beach-ban-must-french-muslim-women-become-invisible-1.2764407">must Fr</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/burkini-beach-ban-must-french-muslim-women-become-invisible-1.2764407">ench Muslim women become invisi</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/burkini-beach-ban-must-french-muslim-women-become-invisible-1.2764407">ble?</a>' by Delphine S<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">trauss, <i>The Irish Times</i>, August 22nd 2016 [culture, Islam<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, France<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2016: <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/13/lidl-jeans-bangladesh-worker-pay-23p-an-hour">How can Lidl sell </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/13/lidl-jeans-bangladesh-worker-pay-23p-an-hour">jeans for £5.99?</a>' by Gethin Cham<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">berlain, <i>The G</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>uardian</i>,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> March 1<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3th 2016 [economics, retail<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ing, manufacture<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">]<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 2016: '<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">T</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">eaching </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">men how to be emot</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">io</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">nal</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/education/edlife/teaching-men-to-be-emotionally-honest.html?_r=0">ly honest</a>' by An<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rew Reiner, <i>New York Times</i>, April 4th 2016<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> [gender, adol<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">escence, ma<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sculinity].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2016: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/29/1950s-teenage-girls-how-not-to-disappear-clare-furniss">Then and now: how </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/29/1950s-teenage-girls-how-not-to-disappear-clare-furniss">things have changed for teenage </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/29/1950s-teenage-girls-how-not-to-disappear-clare-furniss">girls si</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/29/1950s-teenage-girls-how-not-to-disappear-clare-furniss">nce the 1950s</a>' by Clare F<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">urniss, <i>The Guar</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>dian</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Jan<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">uary 29th 2016 [<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">teenagers, gender,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> sexism].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2016: '<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/teenagers-risk-being-defined-for-life-by-their-social-media-posts-1.2495593">T</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/teenagers-risk-being-defined-for-life-by-their-social-media-posts-1.2495593">eenagers ris</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/teenagers-risk-being-defined-for-life-by-their-social-media-posts-1.2495593">k </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/teenagers-risk-being-defined-for-life-by-their-social-media-posts-1.2495593">being d</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/teenagers-risk-being-defined-for-life-by-their-social-media-posts-1.2495593">efined for life by their social media post</a>s' by Karl<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Li<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">llling<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ton, <i>Irish Times</i>, January 14th 2016 [social media, teena<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gers, ident<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ity]<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2016: '<a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/68371/welcome-to-the-anthropocene-a-new-geological-era-for-the-world">Welcome to the Anthropocene, a new geolo</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/68371/welcome-to-the-anthropocene-a-new-geological-era-for-the-world">gical era for the </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/68371/welcome-to-the-anthropocene-a-new-geological-era-for-the-world">world</a>', <i>The Week</i>, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 8th 2016 [geolog<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y, climate change, environment]<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2015: '<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-last-taboos/201511/birth-order-determinesalmost-nothing">Birth Order Determines ... Almost Nothing</a>' by <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jeanne Safer, <i>psychologytoday.co</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>m</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> [psychology, parenting, childhood].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/20/how-psychopaths-can-save-your-life">H</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/20/how-psychopaths-can-save-your-life">ow </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/20/how-psychopaths-can-save-your-life">psych</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/20/how-psychopaths-can-save-your-life">opaths can save your life</a>' by Kevin Du<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tton, <i>The</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Observer</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[psychology].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2015:<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html">'10 </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html">benefits of reading: why you should read </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html">every day</a>' by Lana Winter-<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hebert, Lifehack.org<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> [reading, entertainment, education].</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/06/how-much-can-you-really-learn-while-youre-asleep?CMP=share_btn_tw">How much can you really learn while you're asleep?</a>' by Jordan Gaines Lewis, <i>The Guardian</i>, October 6th 2015 [neuroscience, learning, adolescence]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/15/fifth-of-secondary-school-pupils-wake-almost-every-night-to-use-social-media">Fifth of secondary school pupils wake almost every night to use social media</a>' by Sally Weale, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 15th 2015 [social media, learning, teenagers]. <a name='more'></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/05/dementia-alzheimers-mum-changed-relationship">How Mum's dementia changed our relationship</a>' by Jenny Downham, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 5th 2015 [dementia, family, parenting]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2015: <a href="http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-internet-affects-memory">Why your memory sucks: the science of remembering in the internet age</a>', by Lindsay Kolowich, blog.hubspot.com, August 19th 2015 [memory, neurology, internet]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2015: '<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/breda-o-brien-syrian-boy-deserves-better-than-moment-of-voyeurism-1.2340458">Syrian boy deserves better than moment of voyeurism</a>' by Breda O'Brien, <i>The Irish Times</i>, September 5th 2015 [regugees, media, slavery]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2015: '<a href="https://levdavidovic.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/our-mockingbirds/">Our Mockingbirds</a>' by Fintan O'Mahony, levdavidovic.wordpress.com, May 16th 2015 [marriage, equality, teaching]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/25/secrets-of-the-teenage-brain">Secrets of the teenage brain</a>' by Katie Forster, <i>The Guardian</i>, January 25th 2015 [teenagers, neurology, parenting]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jan/29/competitive-school-sport-harm">Does competitive sport in school do more harm than good?</a>' by Matthew Jenkin,<i> The Guardian</i>, January 29th 2015 [sport, school, health]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2015: '<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-all-rightthinking-people-are-united-against-terrorism-where-are-the-je-suis-nigeria-banners-9985589.html">Where are the "Je suis Nigeria" banners?</a>' by Patrick Cockburn, <i>Independent</i>, January 18th 2015 [terrorism, Nigeria, censorship]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2015: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/28/dorchester-grill-restaurant-review-jay-rayner">Dorchester Grill: restaurant review</a>' by Jay Rayner, <i>Guardian</i>, December 28th 2014 [food, luxury, taste]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2015: '<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/sugar-season-its-everywhere-and-addictive.html">Sugar Season. It's Everywhere, and Addictive</a>' by James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan, <i>New York Times</i>, December 22nd 2014 [diet, nutrition, health].</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2014: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/28/caring-mother-alzheimers-love-self-obsessed">'Caring for my mother</a>' by Alex Andreou, <i>The Guardian</i>, November 28th [dementia, old age, parents]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2014: '<a href="http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2014/10/13/the-kids-arent-alright">The kids aren't all right</a>' by David McWilliams, <a href="http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/">www.davidmcwilliams.ie</a>, October 23th 2014 [Ireland, recession, emigration]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2014: '<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiosity-prepares-the-brain-for-better-learning/">Curiosity prepares the brain for better learning</a>' by Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, October 2nd 2014 [brain, learning, neuroscience]. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2014: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/24/us-high-schools-dress-codes-protest-sexism-hemline">Students protest 'slut shaming' high school dress codes with mass walkouts</a>' by Rory Carroll, The Guardian, September 24th September 2014 [school, uniforms, sexism, personal choice]. </span></span> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2014: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/23/can-reading-make-you-smarter">Can Reading Make You Smarter?</a>' by Dan Hurley, <i>The Guardian</i>, January 23rd 2014 [reading, intelligence, education].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2014: '<a href="http://qz.com/246923/why-isil-is-worse-than-al-qaeda-and-any-other-terrorist-group-that-came-before/">Why ISIL is worse than al-Qaeda</a>' by Bobby Ghosh, <i>Quartz</i>, August 10th 2014 [current affairs, politics, terrorism].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2014: '<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/opinion/sunday/do-our-kids-get-off-too-easy.html?_r=0">Do Our Kids Get Off Too Easily?</a>' by Alfie Kohn, <i>New York Times</i>, May 3rd 2015 [education, psychology, childhood]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May 2014: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/boko-haram-claims-responsibility-kidnapping-nigeria-schoolgirls">Missing Nigerian schoolgirls: Boko Harem claims responsibility for kidnapping</a>' by Monica Mark, The Guardian, May 6th 2014 [Nigeria, Islam].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">March 2014: '<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26384712">Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert?</a>' by Ben Carter, BBC News Magazine, March 1st 2014 [education, skill, learning, talent]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2014:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/opinion/the-disunited-kingdom.html?_r=0"> The Disunited Kingdom</a> by Kathleen Jamie, <i>New York Times</i>, February 23rd 2014 [Scotland, democracy, politics]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 2014: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/giraffe-killed-fuss-human-beings-animals-marius">A giraffe has been killed - why the fuss?</a> by Mary Warnock, <i>The Guardian</i>, February 10th 2014 [ethics, animals].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2014: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/i-met-lucky-people-review?CMP=twt_gu">The Roma - review of <i>I Met Lucky People</i> by Yaron Matras</a>, by Sukhdev Sandhu, <i>The Guardian</i>, January 29th 2014 [Roma, prejudice, society]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2014: '<a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/we%E2%80%99re-a-nation-of-mass-dog-murderers-1269371-Jan2014/">We're a nation of mass dog murderers</a>' by Aaron McKenna, The Journal.ie, January 18th 2014 [animals, society].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2014: '<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/30/258376009/how-language-seems-to-shape-ones-view-of-the-world">How Language Seems to Shape One's View of the World</a>' by Alan Yu, NPR, January 2nd 2014 [language, bilingualism, brain]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 2013: '<a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/253830/why-european-women-are-still-smoking-like-chimneys">Why European women are still smoking like chimneys</a>' by Carmel Lobello, <i>The Week</i>, December 6th 2013 [health, marketing]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">December 2013: '<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/how-music-makes-us-feel-better.html">How Music Makes Us Feel Better</a>' by Maria Konnikova, <i>New Yorker</i>, September 26th 2013 [music, brain]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">November 2013: '<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/economist-explains-24">How Do Spies Bug Phones?</a>' in <i>The Economist</i>, October 31st 2013 [spying, internet, privacy]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2013: '<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626104579121371885556170">A Tiny Pronoun Says a Lot About You</a>' by Elizabeth Bernstein,<i> Wall Street Journal</i>, October 7th 2013 [language, psychology, status].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2013: '<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/best-column-ever-1.1550535">Best. Column. Ever</a>.' by Shane Hegarty, <i>Irish Times</i>, October 4th 2013 [sport, language, journalism]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 2013: '<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/westgate-mall-attacks-al-qaida">Westgate mall attacks: urban areas are the battleground of the 21st century</a>' by David Kilcullen, <i>The Guardian</i>, September 27th 2013 [terrorism, conflict, cities]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2013: '<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/cultural_synesthesia_in_marketing_tiffany_cadbury_and_corona_use_multiple.single.html">Synesthesia Sells</a>' by Laura Spinney, <i>Slate</i>, from the <i>New Scientist</i>, September 22nd 2013 [science, marketing, commerce]. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 2013 : '<a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/248669/12-things-we-know-about-how-the-brain-works">12 things we know about how the brain works</a>' by Shane Parrish,<i> The Week</i>, August 26th 2013 [science, learning, studying].</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September : '<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/never-be-lost-for-words-how-a-good-speech-can-help-revive-a-team-s-fortunes-1.1527342">Never be lost for words</a>' by Richard Fitzpatrick, The <i>Irish Times</i>, September 13th 2013 [sport, language, rhetoric, motivation].</span></span></li>
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SCC English Departmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870512952191475420noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-67863796831147954172023-10-22T16:47:00.004+01:002023-10-25T16:29:13.441+01:00TY House Speech Competition 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRR3EHXeoAvoXn94yCLbhLwoOXWRhuYT1MddnQWQWuFuzBbXC9z-sT98-TwJT3LBJlI76t0vSzTFT9JbF2VHDat_-DghOISHjE0_WsVT2m-BlmG9XBNxSj-EKSKnYSY6VscYRPYAsGGFJIKQCZslh1zzpj1sijS9IgJRJESXj_MaKdU1jfQEp0w/s281/Freda-Teitelbaum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="193" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRR3EHXeoAvoXn94yCLbhLwoOXWRhuYT1MddnQWQWuFuzBbXC9z-sT98-TwJT3LBJlI76t0vSzTFT9JbF2VHDat_-DghOISHjE0_WsVT2m-BlmG9XBNxSj-EKSKnYSY6VscYRPYAsGGFJIKQCZslh1zzpj1sijS9IgJRJESXj_MaKdU1jfQEp0w/s1600/Freda-Teitelbaum.jpg" width="193" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /><i>On Sunday 8th October we held the annual Transition Year House Speech Competition. There was a high standard overall, and the judges awarded equal second place to Rebekah Fitzgerald Hollywood and Safia Walker. A clear first place, however, went to Grace Koch, whose speech about her great-grandmother is now below.<br /></i></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">“In one day it all came crashing down— like falling into an abyss, the sudden shock reverberating long afterwards into the years that followed.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">I’m sure that most people here have learned about, or at least heard of, the Holocaust. It is widely regarded as one of the most important topics in history. However, when we learn about it, I think that we tend to focus on broad details and statistics. Not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but I think it is equally important to listen to personal experiences. Today, I want to share with you my family’s personal experience with the Holocaust. <br /><br />The quote that I just read is taken from Vienna Revisited, a book written by <a href="https://www.hillsidememorial.org/obituaries/freda-teitelbaum/4856/">Freda Ulman Teitalbaum</a>, also called Grandma Freda, my great-grandmother. In it, she talks about her journey of self discovery and reflection in visiting her childhood home with her daughter Marcia. She was born in Vienna in 1924 and grew up in the Judengasse, the Jewish district in Vienna. Freda describes her childhood to be joyous and carefree, albeit sheltered. She enjoyed school, despite her general aversion to math, and was particularly fond of languages and literature. In 1938, the <i>Anschluss</i>, the union between Austria and Nazi Germany, happened and my great-grandmother’s world was shattered. In her book, she writes of the day that she learned about <i>Anschluss</i>. She was walking in the park with her parents and her younger sister Susi when suddenly the sky was filled with planes adorned with Nazi flags that dropped pamphlets. Freda, only thirteen, picked one up only to read the words “Death to the Jews”. She was devastated and taken by surprise, her idyllic bubble popped. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">She also tells of a common occurrence for Jewish women in Vienna at this time. Anyone over the age of 15 could be summoned to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, and forced to strip naked in front of them. They would then cut off a lock of the woman’s hair. This would be a humiliating and devastating experience for anyone, but especially for a teenager. When Freda was 14, she and her mother got the summons. As a young adult, she felt extremely self-conscious about her body, saying that she was too afraid to even undress in front of her mother, let alone the Gestapo. While they ended up being dismissed because Freda was only fourteen, it was a traumatizing experience nonetheless. The Nazis completely changed her self worth as they constantly degraded her place in society as a Jewish woman. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Fortunately, after months and months of waiting, Freda, her mother and her sister were able to get visas for the United States, but their father, who was Polish by birth, had to wait. He told them to go anyway, and he was able to join them after a few months. Many of Freda’s family members would join them, but her beloved uncle Josef would die in the Buchenwald concentration camp and her paternal grandparents would disappear during the war. They refused to leave their home, saying that God would protect them. Even today, we don’t know what happened to them. Freda went on to graduate from high school in Chicago and begin working almost straight away. In 1982, she fulfilled her lifelong dream of university and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English. <br /><br />As I was thinking about what I would do for my speech, I felt a pull towards my great-grandmother. I’m still not quite sure why, but I think I have an idea. Grandma Freda passed away last year at the age of 99. It was sad, of course, but not so much personally. To be honest, I barely knew her and rarely saw her. Last spring, I visited my grandparents, my grandmother Ruth being Freda’s daughter. Together, we looked through some of Freda’s old jewellery. Most of it was cheap costume material apart than two sets of pearl necklaces and two small watches, one silver and one gold. My grandmother gifted the two necklaces to me and my sister, as well as Freda’s college diploma from UCLA, which is now in my bedroom. <br /><br />As we were looking through the collection, my grandmother very gingerly grabbed the watches. They were both broken, but had clearly been taken care of. My grandmother told me how the watches had belonged to her grandmother, Regina Ulman. She had brought them with her when she travelled from Vienna to America. These watches are some of if not the only surviving heirlooms from my family’s time in Vienna. Shortly after the <i>Anschluss</i>, Austrian Jews were forced to give up all valuables to the Gestapo. Before this happened, however, Regina and her husband Bernard were able to smuggle some items out of the country via a Christian friend living in Italy. Most of these items ended up being sold once the Ulmans reached New York. <br /><br />As I held these artefacts of my family’s history, symbols of their pain, suffering, and grief but also of triumph and promises of hope, I noticed a sense of deep connection to my ancestors that I never truly had before. I felt a responsibility to keep their memories alive not only to commemorate them, but to learn from them and maybe help others to do the same. I know we can all agree that what happened in the Holocaust was disgraceful and despicable, but that is not enough. We have to actively fight against anti-semitism and other forms of bigotry. I think that this sentiment was certainly shared by Freda, and it is made clear in her book that there were still many things she thought needed to change. She ends <i>Vienna Revisited</i> with words that power my own desire to share her story: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">“From time to time the same question arose to haunt us: why were we saved, why were we the lucky ones to survive? The only answer to this enigmatic question could be that we were meant to live so that a new generation could arise from the ashes of the old, with the hope that they would inherit a better world, and that they would never forget.”<br /> <br /></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-3079038613611656622023-06-07T11:26:00.006+01:002023-06-07T11:26:42.947+01:00Senior Poetry Prize 2023<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfeEBH0IczTdsUqjMX19ukuOXrV1VdqLxUCXAfgmGaVvdaBWpPTdSBf_ILTXWFLBqIsGuL0RlZhyVNLTyh8Psg3bFN01Gt0AMZD8Rbhb6xoLk-paqpu2k0huZvUdJlzPdifrJpq07UPGqO2-VNoz-wlB4egjNabnBnLzizqA2QoQ12EJgWKmI/s200/poetryprize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="150" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfeEBH0IczTdsUqjMX19ukuOXrV1VdqLxUCXAfgmGaVvdaBWpPTdSBf_ILTXWFLBqIsGuL0RlZhyVNLTyh8Psg3bFN01Gt0AMZD8Rbhb6xoLk-paqpu2k0huZvUdJlzPdifrJpq07UPGqO2-VNoz-wlB4egjNabnBnLzizqA2QoQ12EJgWKmI/s1600/poetryprize.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Congratulations to Isabella Treacy, who wins the Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry for the second year, and to Yilong She, who receives a Commendation. First, some of Isabella's winning portfolio.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">A Funeral for your
Lies </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;">and an Exhumation of
my Truths</span></i><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You could call this a
funeral</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">for your Lies,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and an
exhumation </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">of my Truths.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I was buried next to
this unseemly secret</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">six feet deep with
the roots.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Lord knows I should
still be</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">pushing daisies.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You took my
life </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">but it's not the end.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I was put in the
ground</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and now I'm back from
the dead.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You should have
known </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">that something which
was never living</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">can never really die.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I’m getting tired of
crawling all the way.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I've had enough!</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Isn’t it obvious?</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Holding the pain like
I’m holding my breath</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Now that I’m on
trial.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I won’t be beaten by
this,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Not yet.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And it’s my whole
heart</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Being tried and
tested,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">But it’s mine!</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I won’t be buried or
burned this time.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Who’s the equivocator
now?</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Keres, help me not to
forget,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">While I’m on trial,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Wait until the beast
comes out.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Oh you fool, there
are rules,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I’m coming for you.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You can try to outrun
this scourger</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> but you can’t
escape.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Holy water cannot
save you now.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Now your reckoning
begins</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and La Pelona will
lead you </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">to your yawning
grave.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
<br />
</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I took a journey to
the unknown</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And I came back
changed, </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I can feel it in my
bones.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It feels like I've
been away for an era</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">but nothing changed
at all.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Say goodbye to who I
was.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You told me to calm
down</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and asked why my
heart had turned rotten?</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It still gets my
blood boiling.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And now I look at
you </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">through crimson
tinted glasses</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> while I stay
stuck in the crossfire </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">of my own thoughts.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">La Pelona and I walk
side by side</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">over your spoiled,
evil spirit.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You left a deep scar</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">which I still try to
bleach out.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I’ll dig a grave for
your lies</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">with a beating heart
of stone,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and I’ll never
spare </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">my sympathy</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">for someone like you.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
<br />
</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Kitchen floors and</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;"> Saints at doors</span></i><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">How could I have
known</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">what I was about to
trade. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">All I knew was that I
saw a way</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and you saw the worst
in me.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">As I reached for the
clouds </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">you made sure that
I </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">would return</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">to your weightless
embrace.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I still search for a
reason</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">not to end up in
denial,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">like those long
summer nights</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">stolen away as the
moon falls.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Despite the lies you
bound to me</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> I
still love you.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">But, I won't wait
anymore,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">for the parts of you</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">that are never on
show.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Yet, my heart
yearns </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">to lay on the kitchen
floor</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">under you’re
unfeeling gaze</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">as moonlight paints
your face.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">And every
morning </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">when you wake,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I'll still love
those </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">mangled bits of you.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
<br />
</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Mine Forever</i></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I was there,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">When you fell from
the clouds.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">When I found you,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> I saw a place
like paradise in your eyes,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">then I knew that my
end would come soon.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Those modest saying
that meant so much to you,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">with me they’ve never
quite got through.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I’ve always needed
bigger words.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I was so full of love
that I could hardly breathe.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">There isn’t a
language for the things I feel.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It was such a relief
and a horror</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">To be known so
perfectly,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">So completely. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You were the one who
made me believe,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">that I could fly
again.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Now we’re a story
that I don’t want to read.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Loving you was easy
when I balanced on a knife's edge.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Now your spirit
follows me wherever I go,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and I still hear your
melody from those days <br />
as you haunt me in the night.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">When the sun comes up
and I go blind,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">For a moment, I can
blot out the memory of your face</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">and forget every
line, every wrinkle.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">But, if forever gets
too lonely</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">I’ll meet you where
our souls</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Meet our bones,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Because in my mind</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">You’re mine forever.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></p>
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The formula has remained little changed: pupils read out interesting work they have written during the year, and a guest speaker associated with English comments on this, and speaks on wider issues. There is no competitive element: this is a pure celebration of writing. At the end of the evening the pupils receive their year’s grades.</span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">This year our guest (who had also come several years ago) was Mr Toirleac O’Brien, former English teacher at Blackrock College (his comments are in brackets after each speaker). The evening was compèred by Mr Jameson.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">The first reader was Ava Fagan, with a special memory this year about a scuba-diving trip (so richly descriptive - wonderful). She was followed by Melina Paulsen, who wrote about her first Irish train journey (a delightful piece, with entrancing dialogue). Clodagh Walsh was third, with a short story including the sentence ‘Suddenly there was no noise’ (it opened effectively in the middle). Amaya Street wrote about her memories of her early homes (this looked at how your life might have turned out differently). Jamie Casey then read Alba Perich’s story of first love (very bravely!), followed by a very different piece, Manuela Nassief’s ‘Waterfall’ (with incredible observation, a remarkable piece of writing). Aeladh Bradley-Brady next read her highly ‘imaginative’ piece about losing one sense - hearing. Finally, Iona McCausland wrote on a long-time favourite personal topic, ‘The Oldest Person I Know’, in her case her complicated grandmother (it was deliciously eccentric, with a lovely way of seeing things).</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">Mr O’Brien then gave us some heart-felt sentiments on the future of writing and reading, particularly given the new AI world we have moved into so recently. His passionate advocacy for books was striking. He finished by commending all the readers on their bravery in reading so personally and intimately in front of their peers.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Finally, congratulations to the Premier Award winners: Aeladh Bradley-Brady, Cajetan Cardona, Carlotta Castagna, Amber Cotton, Ava Fagan, Emilia Hager, Manuela Nassief, Melina Paulsen, Shannon Walker Kinsella, Clodagh Walsh, Alison Wang and Johanna zu Solms.</span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-55107810628204816282023-05-29T17:54:00.005+01:002023-05-29T17:54:20.896+01:00Voices of Poetry 2023<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXgP1mPPMh_aHI7rLE8idB9DaqUA8YQ8NGXuLSEVDO0ehT2F3J1km3doQqc_EWPaoMfso1aWjcOHa4gV6e4xi3YONqEpiPasc4tnFFkBk7s7aGZFjq0Pn3TwRd2ElLzPV0DBOtRxD8hLbUowcli_uaPdT-QODZ_t4EoxTt0w-33H79Vswx7k/s4259/L1004418-Enhanced-NR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2816" data-original-width="4259" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXgP1mPPMh_aHI7rLE8idB9DaqUA8YQ8NGXuLSEVDO0ehT2F3J1km3doQqc_EWPaoMfso1aWjcOHa4gV6e4xi3YONqEpiPasc4tnFFkBk7s7aGZFjq0Pn3TwRd2ElLzPV0DBOtRxD8hLbUowcli_uaPdT-QODZ_t4EoxTt0w-33H79Vswx7k/s320/L1004418-Enhanced-NR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">Voices of Poetry has been going for many years: a unique event, it provides a punctuation point at a particular part of the school year: Sixth Form have finished classes, the Sports Day is over, and ahead are the St Columba’s Day weekend, the public exams, the excitement of trips week, and finally the school exams. For 45 minutes we pause in the middle of all this activity and listen in the BSR to voices in different languages, both pupils and staff speaking in a darkened hushed auditorium lit by a single spotlight. The event celebrates the great diversity of the College population, and, appropriately, this year it was Pentecost, with its associations with speaking in many tongues.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">On Sunday evening, a group of three foreign languages started us off, linked tenuously by their first letter. Chinese (Mandarin) was spoken musically by Coco Xu, and she was followed by Czech - Phoebe Landseer, with a piece by 1984 Nobel winner Jaroslav Seifert - and Catalan (Tomas Rosa Echevarria). The rhythm of the evening was that then we reverted to English for three poems: Mr Kirwan was at the event for the first time, reading Thomas Hardy, followed by two Second Formers: Lexi Hunter with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.fulgura.de/sonett/karussel/original/prayer.htm">'Prayer' by Carol Ann Duffy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Elizabeth Coffey with ‘The Great Blasket Island’ by Julie O’Callaghan, which you can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpZp_cXi_k">hear the poet herself read here</a>.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Romance languages formed the next cluster: French from Hugo Laurenceau and Ebah Assebian, Spanish from Eugenia Garcia and Olivia Valderrama, and Italian from Anna Luisa Sanminiatelli. Back to English: Mr Swift read the ever-excellent and amusing Billy Collins's ‘<a href="http://billycollins1.blogspot.com/p/gun.html">Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House</a>’, followed by two more Second Formers, with both Jack-Francis McKeon (<a href="https://pickmeuppoetry.org/earth-summit-by-oliver-tearle/">‘Earth Summit’ by Oliver Tearle</a>) and James Breatnach (the famous ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats) reading confidently.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An extremely eclectic group came next: Yoruba from Bibiire Oke-Osanyintolu, Irish from Naoise Murray, Ancient Greek from Edvard Zujest and Arabic from Anna-Cecilia Corti. You could hardly find languages with less in common, but all of them marked by a very different and beautiful music.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">A First Former and the Warden followed: Harry Casey read his own work ‘Farewell’ and then the Warden recited one of the poems he learned years ago, Walter de la Mare’s dramatic and evocative ‘<a href="https://poets.org/poem/listeners">The Travellers</a>’.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The final foreign-language group was from countries close to each other: German (Hannah Bergmann), Danish (Melina Paulsen), Ukrainian (Anhelina Khliebnykova) and Polish (Aleksander Kierski). The last of these was ‘Clouds’ by the 1996 Nobel Laureate, Wisława Szymborska, and Mr Girdham read out<a href="https://www.szymborska.org.pl/en/wislawa/selected-poems/clouds/"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the English translation</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>first.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">The evening came to a close with Nikolai Foster representing Sixth Form and leavers with Berton Braley’s ‘<a href="ps://allpoetry.com/poem/8619971-The-Will-To-Win-by-Berton-Braley">The Will to Win</a>’, some advice for those whose time at the school is not yet coming to an end. Then Mr McCarthy, whose time is, recited Langston Hughes’s ‘<a href="https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-13640">Life is Fine</a>’.</span></div><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">We ended with Junior Poetry Prize winner Giacomo Borillo’s touching ‘<a href="http://www.sccenglish.ie/">The Beautiful Beach</a>’, thinking of his grandfather who died a year ago. That reflective note was the right one on which to end, a recognition of how poetry can console us and express what truly matters to us.</span></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-7926007728312087182023-05-29T09:42:00.004+01:002023-05-29T09:42:52.573+01:00Junior Poetry Prize 2023<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Congratulations to First Former Giacomo Borillo, who won this year's Junior Poetry Prize, remembering his grandfather, who died a year ago.<br /><br /><br />The sun shines brightly on that beautiful beach.<br />The sand sweeps softly through the wind.<br />Its beauty spans as far as the eye can reach,<br />And all my woeful worries are left behind.<br /><br />My grandfather’s hand is clutched in mine,<br />As we watch the whales pass us both.<br />I want that memory frozen in time,<br />But they say loss is just a part of growth.<br /><br />How I wish I could that memory forever,<br />But I’m a world away from my wish.<br />And how I’d wish that world away,<br />Just to be back on that beautiful beach.<br /></span><br /></span></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-65812629255766142082023-03-01T10:09:00.002+00:002023-03-01T10:09:41.581+00:00Senior Poetry Prize 2023<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Entries for this year's Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry are due by May 26th, handed in to Mr Canning. </span>Entries should contain a portfolio of between two and five poems based on or inspired by the idea of one of - formative experiences / formative people / formative places. Full details are posted on a special notice around the school.<br /></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-38660843074104500022023-02-20T11:55:00.003+00:002023-02-20T11:55:25.033+00:0020 'Macbeth' video/audio annotations<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_J28lcsRK17MKx-JzV2jSNPLNuFmm-eGCrS7EqSHiHZ1FTmNWc2UIROYysQEY6TrK4n-fYL8ODxEWIerlG49Il-g7jcle1LqC6LGcJLxnjtjGlZDPdN2rSR2brAMNby1uGk6oqymQO9FyShlECPYeyDOOftGvJpgaL6nmMPqQtVtzUZuZXs/s496/Screenshot%202023-02-20%20at%2011.54.41.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="496" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_J28lcsRK17MKx-JzV2jSNPLNuFmm-eGCrS7EqSHiHZ1FTmNWc2UIROYysQEY6TrK4n-fYL8ODxEWIerlG49Il-g7jcle1LqC6LGcJLxnjtjGlZDPdN2rSR2brAMNby1uGk6oqymQO9FyShlECPYeyDOOftGvJpgaL6nmMPqQtVtzUZuZXs/s320/Screenshot%202023-02-20%20at%2011.54.41.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/macbeth-key-moment-video-annotations">Here's a renewal</a> of the ShowMe analyses of key moments in <i>Macbeth</i>, now moved to a new location. Each is short (2/3 minutes).</span></span><br /></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-10437088986305620992023-02-09T11:48:00.007+00:002023-02-09T11:48:45.642+00:00Swiss Army Knife quotations<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGMCNDeWdV6M_pG8BrzFWxxeMOhI3OEhrsf6eoW9JMj-wXG_kkgWtnTxM1x5oHst-38Aruf0olIHj91NKNDRo5T7lyACiyF74Td2In-utRPG3gEYuuNn6WT5ZN5v7yqnxEA-zSkky5AHgLdAMLt5lD821VkLw1qCfznaVYrjPwJ-1hydcPXY/s993/Screenshot%202023-01-17%20at%2009.14.28.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="993" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGMCNDeWdV6M_pG8BrzFWxxeMOhI3OEhrsf6eoW9JMj-wXG_kkgWtnTxM1x5oHst-38Aruf0olIHj91NKNDRo5T7lyACiyF74Td2In-utRPG3gEYuuNn6WT5ZN5v7yqnxEA-zSkky5AHgLdAMLt5lD821VkLw1qCfznaVYrjPwJ-1hydcPXY/s320/Screenshot%202023-01-17%20at%2009.14.28.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">A simple, low-preparation revision technique in classes.</span></span></p><p class="" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pupils should know quotations which have multiple uses, just like <a href="https://www.swiss-store.co.uk/shop/swiss-army-knife/size-2/medium-(84-91mm)?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4cOk2p_O_AIVQp7tCh1h4QwCEAAYASAAEgK7rvD_BwE" style="color: #2431f0; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">the famous knife</a>. A good way to emphasise this in class is to choose one, and spend time ‘exploding’ it, getting as much out of it as possible, and interrogating every word. This is part of the process of thinking deeply about a text. It could be done in just 15 minutes.</span></span></p><p class="" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give out A3 sheets of blank paper (or if it’s a last minute decision just use the board, with pupils jotting down bullet points). Put the quotation in the middle (volunteered by a pupil, or chosen by the teacher). Then in pairs (ideally, but works with individuals) ‘interrogate’ the statement in a limited amount of time: say, 10 minutes.</span></span></p><p class="" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then come together as a class to share ideas, and get yet more out of the statement: put these ideas on the board/screen.</span></span></p><p class="" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Above, an example from Lady Macbeth (<a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/s/swissarmyknifemacbeth.pdf" style="color: #2431f0; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">PDF</a>): the murder scene, Act II scene ii. A very simple and apparently banal statement which can reveal a lot. You can have a very rich discussion about the play based on it.</span></span></p><p class="" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(66, 66, 66); color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Questions could be asked in advance/afterwards, such as:</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">If you had to highlight one word only, what, and why?</em></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Why does the character say this? </em></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Does she believe it?</em></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">How is she similar or different to other characters?</em></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">How does this echo anything that has already been said/happened?</em></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Can you connect anything later in the play to this?</em></span></span></li></ul>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-19100574170705378472022-06-20T09:10:00.000+01:002022-06-20T09:10:19.911+01:00Vacancy for 2022-23<p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our English Department is looking for:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">a full-time teacher of English for next year (initially, with extension possible), starting Monday 29th August, covering the Junior and Senior Cycles (including Leaving Certificate).</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"> a part-time teacher of English next year, as a maternity cover. The contract starts on Monday 29th August 2022 and concludes on Friday 10th February 2023, covering both Senior and Junior Cycle. The successful teacher will have 14 hours' classroom teaching a week.</span></li></ul><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Department is a close-knit supportive one, with three experienced teachers available constantly to support the person appointed. Classes are small (for example, there are about 16 pupils in the Fifth Form set). </span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The College operates a six-day timetable, with no classes on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons (or, for the successful candidate, Friday afternoons). </span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Applicants must be fully qualified teachers and will ideally have some experience. They must also be native English speakers and have appropriate Garda vetting.<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" />Applications, including a Curriculum Vitae and the names and addresses of two referees,<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" />should be forwarded as soon as possible/or by June 25th (maternity cover) or by June 30th (full-time post) at the latest to:<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" />The Warden, St. Columba’s College, Whitechurch, Dublin D16 CH93 or by email : warden@stcolumbas.ie.<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="color: #2431f0; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">www.stcolumbas.ie</a></span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Any query in advance of application can be sent without prejudice to sccenglish@stcolumbas.ie.</span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Vacancies <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="color: #2431f0; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none;">on College website</a>.</span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-32726512374265811492022-06-14T17:24:00.002+01:002022-06-14T17:24:55.503+01:00Leaving Certificate English papers 2022<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> For analyses of the Higher Level papers this year, go to the links - <a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/leaving-certificate-english-2022-paper-1" target="_blank">Paper 1</a> and <a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/leaving-certificate-english-2022-paper-2">Paper 2</a>.</span></span><br /></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-68516776000975505952022-06-13T16:35:00.000+01:002022-06-13T16:35:03.303+01:00The Submarine, June 2022<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVTP-uqct-M5ZDcoYA5CB3_mb-th7b-4i0SthypdvN7RAGtd8WwWxnXZx_E_5iDI2q_RlpTOvxFTxpEt-8DY3WoY-4_CZfjPWQSYUKsbtxSV55yPcY5hPqMxm8MFU-OdF7MVEXGJ9M7uTQKwyWRmXr82eM2H6wKIDwS0NFwUW9FqVowlfpuw/s623/Screenshot%202022-06-13%20at%2016.34.06.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="409" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjVTP-uqct-M5ZDcoYA5CB3_mb-th7b-4i0SthypdvN7RAGtd8WwWxnXZx_E_5iDI2q_RlpTOvxFTxpEt-8DY3WoY-4_CZfjPWQSYUKsbtxSV55yPcY5hPqMxm8MFU-OdF7MVEXGJ9M7uTQKwyWRmXr82eM2H6wKIDwS0NFwUW9FqVowlfpuw/s320/Screenshot%202022-06-13%20at%2016.34.06.png" width="210" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well done to Editors Elizabeth Hart and Isabella Treacy on the final edition of 'The Submarine' magazine this school year. <a href="https://issuu.com/sccenglish/docs/submarine_1_">It can be read here</a> in flippable form.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The cover is by Alexia Fantacci, and other artwork is by Tabitha Larke, Safia Walker, Iona Chavasse, Daniel Moran, Isabel Warnock, Alison Wang and Antonia Ladanyi. On the writing front, there is an entertaining interview with Mr Duffy, Edna Johnston's 'What is Mars was made out of a Mars Bar?', Zining Wang's artist profile of Sixth Former Iona Chavasse, an interview with the author Richie Conroy, an account of the talk on race by Clinton Wokocha, and an untitled poem by Anna Rose MacManus.</span><br /></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-81557677091355487922022-06-13T16:06:00.001+01:002022-06-13T16:06:11.615+01:00Vacancy, 2022-23<p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
English Department is looking for a part-time teacher of English next year, as a maternity cover. The contract starts on Monday 29th August 2022 and concludes on Friday 10th February 2023, covering both Senior and Junior Cycle. The successful teacher will have 14 hours' classroom teaching a week.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Department is a close-knit supportive one, with three
experienced teachers available constantly to support the person
appointed. Classes are small (for example, there are about 16 pupils in the Sixth Form set). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
College operates a six-day timetable, with no classes on Wednesday or
Saturday afternoons (or, for the successful candidate, Friday
afternoons). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Applicants
must be fully qualified teachers and will ideally have some
experience. They must also be native English speakers and have
appropriate Garda vetting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Applications, including a Curriculum Vitae and the names and addresses of two referees,<br />should be forwarded as soon as possible/or by June 25th th at the latest to:<br /><br />The Warden, St. Columba’s College, Whitechurch, Dublin D16 CH93 or by email : warden@stcolumbas.ie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="http://www.stcolumbas.ie">www.stcolumbas.ie</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Any query in advance of application can be sent without prejudice to sccenglish@stcolumbas.ie.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Vacancy <a href="https://www.stcolumbas.ie/vacancies/">on College website</a>.</span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-74190582454026955912022-06-13T15:25:00.004+01:002022-06-13T15:25:24.044+01:00Senior Poetry Prize 2<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">More excellent poems from the recent Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry, this time from Yilong She.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Boating <br /></b><br />Moss-encrusted rocks littered along the bank<br />Low-lying leaves of a willow weeping<br />just above the stream,<br />in shining rings rippling a still sky.<br />The vast dawn spread over the waters,<br />Where reflections like sparks, bright and vivid<br />Catch the expanding ripples and the misty air,<br />Some troubledness in the wails of the birds.<br />The trees afar are taller than the horizon<br />Shadowing the breeze to the river depth,<br />Where salmon dip and plump-trout<br />Glide under the cattail and bladderwort -<br /><br />A white creature<br />Mingling a descending ball of light,<br />Erect on one golden cane.<br />Calling out, and louder yet,<br />The mist and parading shadows flee,<br />Between the rows of glowing, golden foliage<br />Between the flowing, flowering ripples<br />her wings beat on.<br />And call back, in deeper mimicking, -<br />Let me be stirred<br />By the murmuring trees or the humming birds;<br />Will she again sing the next spring? <br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rain</b><br /><br />A long dream, cold.<br />Damp cracklings of fire<br />In vicious tenderness<br />Sing, ring, and fling<br />Itself down. Drowning<br />The soft fragrance of<br />Hot oil in the street-<br />Vendors’ buns. Lights<br />In green, yellow and<br />Red blinking rigidly,<br />Mechanical liveliness<br />That sparks a humid<br />Splash of fresh earthly<br />Smell. Always wishing;<br />With myriad hands<br />It carries on looking,<br />Listening to the plops,<br />Pitters and splatters -<br />Searching, always.<br />Children passing by, a<br />Long row of iridescent<br />Flowers, hanging low.<br />Singing in overt unison,<br />A sweet, unadulterated<br />Chorus. <br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sea</b><br /><br />White flowers that bloom<br />folding on itself<br />white petals sprouting from the blue<br />whirling along the selkies’ song. <br /><br />The shimmering and swelling of the shifting current<br />surging and plunging<br />and again surge<br />blowing its soul into the withering desert<br /> <br />I watch it rise above my ankles and retreat back<br />again and again<br />with a fresh tenderness<br />and I will continue to watch it, rolling on.</span></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-80025105601686112772022-06-01T18:39:00.005+01:002022-06-01T18:44:10.961+01:00Transition Year English Evening 2022<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b id="docs-internal-guid-66003db7-7fff-a0a9-3525-c0c95e0e8f97" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-66003db7-7fff-a0a9-3525-c0c95e0e8f97" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-66003db7-7fff-a0a9-3525-c0c95e0e8f97" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfd-kHykUpTr6RRctxHwNKNzhjtMaTqTDe1tMfH1h5yglHRQ8g962M1Uq0qZsQQKAVNPYfvrA_-ukdK4qYvqYQd9ynN4dPCu_19nlrC68GIhtGEXIWnbzaFUcvYUS6sIzykc3R3mEIYplQ5euIiJflxWnHVsoHJ4kMhXFhx4yfetKtLWojlc/s2048/c200594a-ab66-4e8a-949f-8950e44121c9.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfd-kHykUpTr6RRctxHwNKNzhjtMaTqTDe1tMfH1h5yglHRQ8g962M1Uq0qZsQQKAVNPYfvrA_-ukdK4qYvqYQd9ynN4dPCu_19nlrC68GIhtGEXIWnbzaFUcvYUS6sIzykc3R3mEIYplQ5euIiJflxWnHVsoHJ4kMhXFhx4yfetKtLWojlc/s320/c200594a-ab66-4e8a-949f-8950e44121c9.JPG" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-66003db7-7fff-a0a9-3525-c0c95e0e8f97" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 28th Transition Year English Evening took place last night in the Big Schoolroom, compèred by Mr Jameson, after its two-year hiatus. The guest of honour was the author Richie Conroy, whose comments on the individual pieces are in italics below</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-66003db7-7fff-a0a9-3525-c0c95e0e8f97" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nine members of the Fourth Form read out pieces of writing: Phoebe Landseer opened up with a piece on her first home, in which we were</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> transported by the power of words</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, followed by Zara Chohan (‘The Watcher’, a piece of fiction, which was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gripping with lots of tension</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Isabella Treacy on the joys of books (read by Raicheal Murray, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a superb piece that made us feel we were in a second-hand bookshop</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Daniel Murray (on censorship, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an effective piece</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Lara Hunter with a fictional piece which was <i>superb</i>, Georgia Goodbody (on her grandmother and her home, now sold, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an amazing picture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Belen Olea (on the oldest person she knows, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a fine piece which showed how important it is to pay attention to the older generation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Lily Boyle on learning poetry in primary school (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a lovely window into the past</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and finally Alannah McKee on her last day at primary school (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a real journey in her piece, and a really powerful ending</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr Jameson presented the annual trophy to the editors of <i>The Submarine</i> magazine, this year Elizabeth Hart and Isabella Treacy. He then handed over to Richie Conroy, who used his experience of running the Dublin City Marathon for the first time to give the pupils important advice about writing. We all have a voice in our heads (for Richie, ‘Kermit’), which discourages us, but we need to say yes to new experiences. No experience is wasted. Reading is so important. Richie handed out writers’ notebooks to the presenters and advised them to jot down ideas, characters, good lines, dialogues. He spoke funnily, accessibly and with great encouragement to all the young writers in the audience.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, the following were congratulated as winners of Premier Awards this year: Hannah Bergmann, Lily Boyle, Alison Coogan, Elizabeth Hart, Alannah McKee, Cameron McKinley, Belen Olea, Rachel Shaw, Calvin She, Isabella Treacy, Cayden Wong.</span><br /></p></b></span><p></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-79393448230407273672022-05-31T09:40:00.004+01:002022-05-31T09:40:55.899+01:00Senior Poetry Prize 2022<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99XUrMEGi0_AsT7Ph7DBg0clcz4l-PJ9VF2PszVnWWmcdeJm_x3MwB1wvpjxVfsS9hctWsODVwDMqdAl5b6pb-RXmgCoufl21293PRHrRFwrnkJeNVdNs3SNIQokGmCb1FFXx8Lj41ALfp3BC0t5AvG5eWb6-63QLTGtjagQBMY4ryOezp64/s4032/IMG_9774.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99XUrMEGi0_AsT7Ph7DBg0clcz4l-PJ9VF2PszVnWWmcdeJm_x3MwB1wvpjxVfsS9hctWsODVwDMqdAl5b6pb-RXmgCoufl21293PRHrRFwrnkJeNVdNs3SNIQokGmCb1FFXx8Lj41ALfp3BC0t5AvG5eWb6-63QLTGtjagQBMY4ryOezp64/s320/IMG_9774.JPG" width="240" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Mr Canning writes</i>:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry 2022 was awarded to Transition Year pupil Isabella Treacy. It was the overall consistency and quality of her submitted body of five poems based on or inspired by the idea of either or all of MEMORIES or JOY or ECHOES which edged out some other very strong entries. It was fantastic that so many Transition Year students entered. <br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Knots by Isabella Treacy</b><br /><br />Once we were a pair,<br />Content to stay<br />Transfixed in each other's steady gaze,<br />You look at me now with hollow eye sockets<br />And smile,<br />Yesterday I was a word,<br />A word that I could never find<br />Left with no voice to speak it,<br />Now I am a happy song<br />Placed on your lips,<br />By this sound I was resurrected,<br />Life was not aware of me<br />And I wasn’t aware of life,<br />Now, its flames warm my heart<br />Please, don't ever stop singing,<br />You showed me that life<br />Wasn’t about extending your time,<br />But I had already crowned that same old passing<br />In such an idyllic swiftness,<br />For everything dies<br />And may the days<br />All pass me by,<br />As the stillness covers my ears<br />Until all sound disappears,<br />And I am left again with a word,<br />And no one left to speak it. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-89697172367178495482022-05-30T18:02:00.002+01:002022-05-30T18:24:08.595+01:00Voices of Poetry 2022<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrbljKIhbxuEgp-oZIDOglGEPQHYTrqgSLOWSkYY2OxVFQxe9OkpB0yw5MhQJhiiHltb7_ioMjsqhzY8aOax8zvTc4sUiYVCYO8vorpC2UX-WK-ivlwgFjoHHofNuHcBi5VQwqfIyX4lNQzEt06y765wNhgy7_S1eFwCRfobg9fUYrNyTdAA/s4032/IMG_9774.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrbljKIhbxuEgp-oZIDOglGEPQHYTrqgSLOWSkYY2OxVFQxe9OkpB0yw5MhQJhiiHltb7_ioMjsqhzY8aOax8zvTc4sUiYVCYO8vorpC2UX-WK-ivlwgFjoHHofNuHcBi5VQwqfIyX4lNQzEt06y765wNhgy7_S1eFwCRfobg9fUYrNyTdAA/s320/IMG_9774.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">Sunday evening saw the special event that is Voices of Poetry return to the Big Schoolroom in its long-lasting and infallible format: a pupil or teacher reading a short poem after a brief explanation in a darkened room, picked out by a single spotlight. Some of these were in languages other than English: it is amazing how powerful such readings can be, even if you don’t understand the lines. The evening was organised by Mr Swift, and the presenter was Mr Girdham.<br /><br />Marianne Lee from First Form opened proceedings, with her own evocative poem ‘The Witching Hour’, followed by Mr Jameson from the English Department with a translation of a poem by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer, '<a href="https://momentoftime.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/the-tree-and-the-sky-tomas-transtromer/">The Tree and the Sky</a>'.<br /><br />The other languages kicked in: poems in Italian (Alexia Fantacci), German (Toni Ladanyi), Cecilia Corti (Arabic), Irish (Dairbhre Murray) and Chinese (Harry Wang). The aural contrasts were fascinating.<br /><br />Mr Girdham then read out ‘<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/resistance-by-simon-armitage-ukraine-poem">Resistance</a>’, recently written by the British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in solidarity with all those under fire and bombardment in Ukraine, which led on naturally to Pavlo Shvalov reading a piece in Ukrainian celebrating his country’s independence.<br /><br />Another step change was to Leonid Mylvaganam, who read out his own flowing work, close to performance poetry. Three European languages came next: Dutch (Josefien Hutchinson), French (Eole Mignot) and Spanish (Mateo Aliaga). Again, it was remarkable to hear the differences even though you can drive from one country to the next.<br /><br />This year’s Junior Poetry Prize was won by Delia Brady, and her poem '<a href="http://www.sccenglish.ie/2022/04/junior-poetry-prize-2022.html">The Moon</a>' was read by Anna Rose McManus. She was followed by the Warden, who said that from a young age at prep school he had to learn poems off by heart, and he recited G.K. Chesterton’s ‘<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47918/the-donkey">The Donkey</a>’.<br /><br />Then, Slavic languages were represented by Polish (Dr Pyz) and Czech (Phoebe Landseer). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next two poems brought us close to the end, with two people who are soon to leave the College: Ms Heidi Kavanagh (Yeats’s ‘<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old">When You are Old and Grey</a>’) and the Senior Prefect, Evie Pringle, with Stevie Smith’s '<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46843/in-my-dreams">In My Dreams</a>'.<br /><br />And finally, Mr Canning announced the winner of this year’s Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry (pictured), Isabella Treacy, and read out a poem from her winning portfolio, 'The Knots'.<br /><br />To conclude, Mr Girdham recommended Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast <a href="https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">Poetry Unbound</a>: a short podcast twice a week on a single poem, with </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ó</span></span> Tuama’s reflections. It does what poetry should do for readers: provide a space for attention away from the busy noise of the world. And that is just what Voices of Poetry does too.</span></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-6631869030368860432022-04-29T10:00:00.001+01:002022-04-29T10:00:22.424+01:00Junior Poetry Prize 2022<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Congratulations to Delia Brady, who has been awarded this year's Junior Poetry Prize for her work 'The Moon':</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0928b1dc-7fff-818d-05a4-83e46fa1f05a" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0928b1dc-7fff-818d-05a4-83e46fa1f05a" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Moon</span></b></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0928b1dc-7fff-818d-05a4-83e46fa1f05a" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a moon of my own.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She haunts me from a distance, dimly aglow.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She seems to reach out, but even if I stretch my fingers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know I’ll never reach her.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So strange to know a moon by name, to see her sit next to me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She seems the saddest for one who shines so bright.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She seems to only call me when it’s night, perhaps </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The loneliest time.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My cherished moon, I look for her always.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her indecisive presentation keeps her alive, but</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Puts me in a guessing daze.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And on the nights she does not show herself,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wait impatiently for her return.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I never hear what she tries to say, her volume smaller than a whisper,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The distance dissolves her message throughout the pin-prick of stars.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My beloved moon, I admire her from afar.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is certainly the most beautiful thing in my galaxy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A million planetary rings could never outstand her creases, curves, and spots.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when she takes centre stage to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eclipse what we always see</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A million people gather just for her, and yet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We still can not see her.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My precious moon, I’ll never know her touch.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As incredulous and tempting as she is, I know that</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I inched any closer, I would only be grasping at air.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, I will watch her from here.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will reach up and stretch my fingers. I will cup my hands </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I will imagine I am holding her; for when one is</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deeply in love with the moon, I believe that is all I can do.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My rare and mysterious, my ever changing, my center of dreams,</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love her</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because she is My moon</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I will never stop loving her.</span></p></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span><p></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-62341148923174458382022-04-28T10:44:00.007+01:002022-04-28T10:44:48.295+01:00Senior Poetry Prize 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY50D-UGQ_bnapAOSoCTvl50wIhLu6k9fjfqq0N9ym_kbxp7E3kKEq3B1VNVjXZXstI4eBVyl04tvx6j6s4uwN0-qU8iEdRN9MNR49hwOZth37wBLGKG-2z1iM4_-m1cLjLQeoHe9dw9CXGc4RyjjGOnluC7GdJ_Ufe29MQxV9ysUmCr2VqE/s200/poetryprize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="150" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY50D-UGQ_bnapAOSoCTvl50wIhLu6k9fjfqq0N9ym_kbxp7E3kKEq3B1VNVjXZXstI4eBVyl04tvx6j6s4uwN0-qU8iEdRN9MNR49hwOZth37wBLGKG-2z1iM4_-m1cLjLQeoHe9dw9CXGc4RyjjGOnluC7GdJ_Ufe29MQxV9ysUmCr2VqE/s1600/poetryprize.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Seniors is this year being launched on Poetry Day Ireland.<br /> <br />All entries are to be typed and emailed to Mr Canning by the evening of Friday 27th May. <br /> <br />Entries should contain a portfolio of between two and five poems based on or inspired by the idea of either:-<br />MEMORIES<br />or<br />JOY <br /> or<br />ECHOES<br />Poems should be at least ten lines long, and typed. The winning entry will be based on the overall standard of the entrant’s body of poems. There will also be a prize for the best poem if it is not in the winner’s selection. Other strong entries will be posted here.<br /><br />The English Department will also give smaller book-tokens to strong entries that do not win the Prize. <br /> <br />You can treat the ideas of ‘Memories’ or ‘Joy’ or ‘Echoes’ in a free way: any connection is fine, as long as the poems are connected by image, inspiration, theme, form, situation, context …<br /><br />The Peter Dix Memorial Prize for Poetry was presented by the Dix family in memory of Peter, who died in the Lockerbie tragedy in 1988. The Memorial (pictured), by sculptor Joe Sloan, is kept in the Library and inscribed with the names of past winners.</span></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-36444392318136333272022-02-16T15:27:00.001+00:002022-04-29T19:01:43.965+01:00Thinking about 'Othello'<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.juliangirdham.com/blog/thinking-about-othello" target="_blank">Here</a> are 10 exercises on quotations in <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Othello.</em> They are designed for pair-work 15-minute sessions in class, but work perfectly well for individuals. You need to know the play well, so these are for revision at a late stage of study. The purpose is to make your mind work hard: retrieving factual details, certainly, about the sequence of the play, individual quotations and so on, but more importantly know making you think and create connections, and have a debate with a partner.</span></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #424242; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 28px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">You don’t need to write on the original sheet itself: just take a piece of paper and jot down your responses. When finished find the quotation in context from the text itself, and then fill in any gaps.</span></span></div>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-70219049421551062942021-12-11T09:36:00.006+00:002021-12-12T18:22:17.208+00:00The Submarine, Michaelmas 2021<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzy50zGmANoo6G2URoNm56S0JsbnL0briTlXSCe5_10AOGhLA26r0yE3snRgyJQdCefVhLLxOlWkmCGwJ_rcfhoBRTczWIRvrgIkX3RGqQ0v6EebNmC54zf519V4IO1y8P0rG3WxsCRmFOusph5qrX23rLNNPmFoln1oFx2jrNYLGEGYkfXXg=s416" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="292" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzy50zGmANoo6G2URoNm56S0JsbnL0briTlXSCe5_10AOGhLA26r0yE3snRgyJQdCefVhLLxOlWkmCGwJ_rcfhoBRTczWIRvrgIkX3RGqQ0v6EebNmC54zf519V4IO1y8P0rG3WxsCRmFOusph5qrX23rLNNPmFoln1oFx2jrNYLGEGYkfXXg=s320" width="225" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The latest edition of the pupil magazine, <i>The Submarine</i>, has now been published, and can be read online via Issuu <a href="https://issuu.com/sccenglish/docs/the_submarine_2021_december-2">here</a>. The new editors are Isabella Treacy, Elizabeth Hart and Phoebe Landseer.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elena O'Dowd reviews this year's book club choice, <i>All Our Hidden Gifts</i> by Caroline O'Donoghue, there is poetry by Marianne Lee and Delia Brady, essays on Grades by Alexia Fantacc, on Victorian London by James Breatnach and on BDD by Isabella Treacy and a rugby report on First Form by Ethan Robertson, as well as a selection of the best Young Adult fiction this year.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Art work is by Felicitas Boecking, Max Kinsky, Paul Schilling, Calvin She, Zining Wang, Antonia Ladanyi, Ellen Bevan, Helma Worringen and Alice Letort.</span></span></p>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-27039766580548359822021-11-09T12:10:00.002+00:002021-11-09T12:10:11.548+00:00Othello - full play quotation revision<p>A<span style="font-family: georgia;"> revision series using quotations from <i>Othello,</i> by Act, is <a href="http://www.sccenglish.ie/search/label/Othello%20Quizlets">here.</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">On this post you can see all 67 quotations together from all five Acts, below. </span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Set the Quizlet in flashcard study mode, and click top right to ‘answer with definition’, and then try to recall the missing word. Click to find the answer and for some notes on the significance of the quotation.</span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most importantly, think about how the quotation can be used, what it tells us about a character/theme, in what way it resonates elsewhere in the play. </span></p>
<iframe src="https://quizlet.com/639060357/flashcards/embed?i=1n4t93&x=1jj1" height="500" width="100%" style="border:0"></iframe>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-44790973134779006092021-11-09T12:07:00.001+00:002021-11-09T12:07:09.652+00:00Othello, Act 5 - quotation revision<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fifth in a revision series using quotations from <i>Othello,</i> by Act. </span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Set the Quizlet in flashcard study mode, and click top right to ‘answer with definition’, and then try to recall the missing word. Click to find the answer and for some notes on the significance of the quotation.</span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most importantly, think about how the quotation can be used, what it tells us about a character/theme, in what way it resonates elsewhere in the play. </span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p>
<iframe src="https://quizlet.com/639051603/flashcards/embed?i=1n4t93&x=1jj1" height="500" width="100%" style="border:0"></iframe>JGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01754508292120592769noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30557831.post-60513072589650585192021-11-08T14:47:00.002+00:002021-11-08T14:47:39.445+00:00Othello, Act 4 - quotation revision<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fourth in a revision series using quotations from <i>Othello,</i> by Act. </span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Set the Quizlet in flashcard study mode, and click top right to ‘answer with definition’, and then try to recall the missing word. Click to find the answer and for some notes on the significance of the quotation.</span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most importantly, think about how the quotation can be used, what it tells us about a character/theme, in what way it resonates elsewhere in the play. </span></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p>
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