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The Fortnightly newsletter (since 2016): thinking, reading, writing, teaching. Subscribe and see recent editions here: juliangirdham.com/the-fortnightly
Tracing the real people in Brian Friel’s ‘first great Irish play’ irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…
In today’s Irish Times, Derek Scally on an important exhibition. Valuable for the double ‘knowing’ in Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’.
Online Book Club | The Bog People In celebration of #InternationalBogDay, join @SeamusHeaneyNLI on Zoom for a special book club on 'The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved' by P.V. Glob. 📅 Friday, 25 July at 1pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…
In five years @WALKTHRUs_5 has grown faster and further than @olicav and I ever imagined. We’ve got exciting projects and partnerships with groups of schools across the UK and in Australia Thailand Sweden Netherlands (go Doorloopjes!! ) Ghana Bulgaria USA Canada in every…
The next Fortnightly will be an 'Occasional' for paid subscribers, in early August: Including Shannon Vallor on AI, Joseph O'Connor, Ferdia Lennon and lots more. juliangirdham.substack.com
💡We have evolved to pay special attention to what we hear in stories.📚 In this week’s episode of the Knowledge Matters Podcast, @Doug_Lemov speaks with @DTWillingham about why this happens! 📲Download and follow now on your favorite streaming platform: tinyurl.com/5e4y667t
"Creating a middleman by using AI is a waste of my time, a dereliction of my duties, and feels too much like teaching by focus group." Knowing our students through their writing (and talking!) is one of the great privileges of being an English teacher. Connection matters.
I wrote about why I won't be using AI to correct my students' work. thevideotrolley.blogspot.com/2025/07/can-we…
I wrote about why I won't be using AI to correct my students' work. thevideotrolley.blogspot.com/2025/07/can-we…
WHOLE BOOKS! I pop into this wonderful podcast episode from @Doug_Lemov via @KnowledgeMatrs on the value of reading whole books knowledgematterscampaign.org/post/ep-4-lite…
From the archive for Anita Brookner, #BornOnThisDay in 1928, my thoughts on the brilliant HOTEL DU LAC, in which a novelist is packed off to Europe following an undisclosed scandal. While there, she must decide on the kind of life she wishes to lead. jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/hot…
An introduction to teaching 'Othello': free webinar on Wednesday 10th September, 7.00-8.00pm Irish time. Registration: edcentretralee.ie/cpd-courses-tr… @TraleeESC @ClareEdCentre @NavanESC
Ireland, make sure you don't miss the incredible @lifelonglit when she is there in September. lifelongliteracy.com/lyn-stone-nort…
A warning to the young: just say no to AI - @AaronBMacLean for @EngelsbergIdeas - My keynote address to the Hudson Institute’s Political Studies Program on the threat artificial intelligence presents to young people:engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-warni…
The latest edition of The Occasional is out: Including James Shapiro, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Emma Smith on Macbeth, Jane Eyre, Robert Seethaler, Richard Flanagan, Sylvia Plath, short reviews and more. juliangirdham.com/blog/the-occas…
