I have to admit, until recently I’d never given a huge amount of thought to the process involved in designing a book cover.
I love books, always have, and worked for a couple of years in the best bookshop in Ireland (Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway for the uninitiated) but [...]
Here are a few personal essay titles that I gave to my Junior Certs today. I’m really just posting them here so I’ll have them for again! Most of them are taken from a random selection of previous exam papers. Some of the titles that usually come up lean in particular directions – towards descriptive short [...]
I’ve just stumbled upon this essay I wrote while doing my H.Dip. It’s no masterpiece but I found it interesting (if a little cringeworthy) to read on a few levels. In many ways it’s like a time capsule, written 10yrs ago and making no reference whatsoever to visual texts, social media, blogging or [...]
The exam hall is probably the least condusive environment for inspiration known to humankind. It is a weird pressure cooker of silence and ticking clocks, all tinged with the internal panic of knowing that 37% of your grade in English relies on you finding something to say and saying it well for QB [...]
What does it mean to be Irish? It means we drink too much, swear too much, shout at the telly (especially when there’s sport on), love Taytos, have at least nine cups of tea a day, talk about the weather all the time (but none of us own a rainjacket!), have the Irish mark [...]
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