November 5, 2012

Having picked up my weekly greens and cheese in the Temple Bar Market in Meeting House Square on Saturday morning,[...]

August 30, 2012

Sorry for leaving it so long since the last blog, but it's been a hectic summer.  Enough of the excuses. [...]

July 3, 2012

If you want to live in Ireland, even for a while, you're going to have to know your rain vocabulary. [...]

June 25, 2012

Everyone knows the usual spots - Howth, Phoenix Park etc. etc., and they are wonderful places to walk, but Dublin[...]

June 13, 2012

Some say it's unreadable, others insist it's the greatest novel ever written.  Since it's publication in 1922, readers all over[...]

May 29, 2012

After a long break the Atlas blog is back.  You may think I've been lying in the park, turning pink,[...]

April 3, 2012

In the teachers' room here at Atlas I am surrounded by sounds: clicks, hums, smacks, clatters, mumbles, moans, knocks, plops,[...]

March 30, 2012

The sun's gone in again and everything's back to normal.  So, we must ask what there is to do in[...]

March 22, 2012

So, let's get serious this week, serious about pronunciation.  More specifically, about regular past tense /ed/ endings, which can be[...]

March 2, 2012

It seems spring is upon us - the sun's out, and there's been no rain for a few days.  Snowdrops[...]