
Teacher. Post-Primary (History) Inspector. #edchatie
Clonmel
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For 40-something years I followed this club through very thick and awful thin. The biggest fan I know was by brother Conor who would have been f-ing and blinding with joy at the TV tonight.
We are Champions. Walk on.
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#lfc
#LiverpoolareChampions
The Strike
When people started saying John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of nineteen people near a coal mine in Ludlow Colorado, he hired “the father of public relations.”
~ Industrialist and PR on @criminalshow
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#history
Living in Milwaukee with a Mayo granny automatically makes you Irish. Living here doesn’t
• @fotoole get to the heart of something thst should bother all of us who love our neighbours
#ireland
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Everything I Know About Feminism I Learned From Nuns by @Liesllibby (@nytimes 2019) buff.ly/tUmyWYD
#edchatie
#reading
Jacqueline Rose: Freud, Jung and Sylvia Plath
~ @LRB Podcast recorded in 2011, Rose interviewed by Paul Myerscough on her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine
- brain food
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#podcast
#reading
My Life Was a Trainwreck. Then I Read This Poem.
A.O. Scott on Wendy Cope's villanelle Some Rules for@nytimes
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#poetry
#reading
A Principal Saved 900 Students Before His School Was Washed Away in Nepal
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#edchatie
Legacies of the printing pioneer Johannes Gutenberg linger everywhere
~ @rinville for @irishtimes. A visit to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz is well worth the journey
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#history
#edchatie
Tessa Hadley reads “Gold Watch,” by John McGahernon @nyerfiction, which was published in 1980.
~ this is the kind of story that, even if you know it, listening to another voice read it can bring out some subtleties
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#reading
#podcast
Lesson feedback: don’t send it, don’t give it – co-construct it. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it. I've been going back to @teacherhead over the summer, to great avail
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#edchatie
Empire was central to how Ireland’s nonsectarian colleges justified themselves
~this #history of links between Irish education and Empire before independence is a fascinating and very welcome analysis
~ Jay Roszman for @IrishTimesLife
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#edchatie
A History of MTV in 10 Songs from @trackstarshow, primarily shared for other 80s kids among us
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#podcast
#music
Why do crowds make our emotional experiences more intense? @profjohndrury for @psyche_the mag
~ I wonder if, in this day and age, this applies to events experienced on screens and social media
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#reading
Olywn Fouéré on @SecondCaptains Saturday last week was a thing of beauty, life, death and everything inbetween. Amazing radio
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#weekend
#podcast
Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem.
~ @CarloIaconoWork for @aeonmag
Mentions of UDL, multimodal, difference not deficit, and adapting environments for readers/learners should strike chords for educators
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#edchatie
#reading
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’ by Nabokov on a classic @LRB podcast. What a voice
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#poetry
#engchat
What happens when you trace your family’s roots and ask the hard questions no one has ever wanted to hear?
~ this piece by Susan Saulny for @nytimes is powerful, on race, family history, but also on humanity
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#history
#reading


