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Recent Posts
Guerrilla Poet Strikes Again
Recently we published a 'poem' by one Charmaine Munch (Trelawny), which the Librarian had found lying around the Library. Now another poet, with suspiciously similar nomenclature, has deposited another piece in the Senior Reading Room. It's called 'A...
English Teaching 5
It's worth teachers checking out David and Ben Crystal's site Shakespeare's Words, based on their glossary and 'language companion' of the same name - annotations, a glossary, 'play circles' of characters (such as this one on As You Like It), and a w...
\'Much Ado About Nothing\' on Wordle
No 32 in our Shakespeare Wordles series : Much Ado About Nothing.Wordles are created by Jonathan Feinberg's online tool here; the more times the word appears in the text, the larger the word. In our Shakespeare Wordles, the entire text, including the...
Many Eyes Visualization of \'King Lear\'
The Many Eyes website has in its stable the great Wordle tool, but also plenty of other ways of presenting and 'visualizing' data. This includes text, and we've been experimenting by in-putting the entire text of King Lear. The one below is a 'Word T...
Short Story Competition 4
The last of this collection of Junior Cert stories, all starting with the same sentence. Sadhbh Sheeran wrote this story, which opens :-From the other side of the wall I could hear the footsteps getting closer. It was definitely now or never. I took ...
First Library Staff selection
Mr McConville has started off an interesting development in the Library, which is to ask members of staff to select books which have particularly influenced them in the past, and which they would like to recommend and, briefly, write about. These boo...
