Other Government ministers will be asked to find €446m in efficiencies and other reforms this year, to pay for extra funding for the Department of Education. That Department is today being given €646m in extra cash to cover rising costs in Special Ed, with €200m ‘new’ cash and the rest in savings
My feature for the Irish Post on the Irish writers born in Britain featured in A Hosting eg Paul Howard, Mike McCormack, Catherine O’Flynn, Martin McDonagh, Eugene McCabe and Bridget O’Connor and British-based ones such as Roy Foster and Martina Evans
www.irishpost.com/features/hos...
Agree on the top three!
Plan to, Martin. Am enjoying the terrific variety of the pieces.
Thanks Jacqui - looks great - ordered!
Excellent morning read!
A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations. Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at UCD, reviews A Hosting, my new book
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English Meet on Thursday 7th May at St Columba's College, Dublin 16, 7.00-9.00pm.
Last few tickets left (free). #edchatie
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Speakers for the English Meet on May 7th. Full details in Eventbrite link.
Free tickets for the English Meet on Thursday 7th May, starting at 7.00pm.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/english-me...
It's a superb place. And going in as the doors opened meant I had an entire floor to myself for 30 mins.
Thanks. Got to see another version @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social last week.
Dwindling free tickets for the English Meet on Thursday 7th May. #edchatie
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Happy birthday, #SeamusHeaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013). Your words still root us in place and memory. 🤍
Very good.
Dwindling free tickets for the English Meet on Thursday 7th May. #edchatie
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today is the 1st in a new series about how the greatest political writer of the 20th century, George Orwell, responded in real time to the epochal events of WWII. What did he get right, what did he get wrong & what did he fail to understand at all?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers. The collection's title is borrowed from Maeve Brennan, whose story 'The Eldest Child' is included here. Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Niamh Boyce, Evelyn Conlon, Mary Costello, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Anne Devlin, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Maria Edgeworth, Anne Enright, Norah Hoult, Mary Lavin, Siobhán Mannion, Molly McCloskey, Eimear McBride, Bernie McGill, Lisa Mçlnerney, Belinda McKeon, Lia Mills, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O'Brien, Roisín O'Donnell, E. M. Reapy, Charlotte Riddell, Eimear Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Somerville & Ross and Susan Stairs.
The Long Gaze Back from 2011, edited @sineadgleeson.bsky.social reshaped the Irish literary canon, asserting in their rightful place a great cohort of women writers. Recently reprinted @newislandbooks.bsky.social.
Very excited to share my most recent episode of Conceptually Speaking! No matter where you’re situated in the English Studies penumbra, @manshel.bsky.social’s research on the history of English education is must-read scholarship. #literacies #edusky #academicsky
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Woman in red inside the Heaney exhibition
This week you can visit Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, a free exhibition by the National Library of Ireland located at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
🏛️ Mon-Sat: 10am-4pm: https://ow.ly/azvM50YB91g
English Meet for teachers in the Dublin area.
Thursday 7th May, 7.00-9.00pm. #edchatie
Free tickets:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/english-me...
📖 Next weekend we'll start our slow-read of Bleak House by Charles Dickens (one "installment" of chapters a week, all the way through August)
For those interested, feel free to message @thevogelman.bsky.social or me and we'll send you more details!
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The Fortnightly is on its Easter holidays.
Here’s last Saturday’s edition.
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Bookshop display of A Rebel and a Traitor.
Snippet in Waterstones Oxford from my IT review of Rory Carroll’s A Rebel and a Traitor.
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A photograph of a play in performance. A woman wearing a green boiler suit with a green Elizabethan-style bodice over the top, the sleeves rolled up, with two enormous donkey-style ears emerging out of her curly brown hair. Her mouth is open wide as she speaks; two other people are watching her, looking alarmed.
A still from a silent film, in sepia. A man is leaning against a tree, reading a piece of paper. He's wearing a short tunic, and has a donkey's head on, with enormous ears and a big mouth. He's being watched by a child wearing pale shorts and top, holding a wand, who is laughing at him.
Bottom is transformed into an ass! #MoonMad
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Two asinine transformations (many more to come): Mariah Gale at the Globe in 2023, dir. Elle While; full puppet head worn by William V. Ranous in the 1909 Vitagraph silent film (string just visible under his chin).
Speakers for the English Meet on May 7th. Full details in Eventbrite link.
Free tickets for the English Meet on Thursday 7th May, starting at 7.00pm.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/english-me...
Still from the 1960 film The Apartment. The office worker character played by Jack Lemmon is in a suit and tie in a huge bullpen filled with men in suits and ties working mindlessly at desks each with the same office equipment atop them.
One irony is that the effect of pushing kids onto devices all day turned 21st century schools into 20th century offices with kids working all day on office equipment on task completion.
