October 28, 2011

Tonight, Atlas's Halloween party is set to spook the hell outta anyone with the guts to get down to the[...]

October 25, 2011

A wet one"Floody Hell" said the front page headline of this morning's Metro newspaper after yesterday's deluge.  Rivers burst their[...]

October 11, 2011

There's an interesting story on the Guardian TEFL diary about changing attitudes to accents in the US school system.  Here's[...]

October 7, 2011

The blog is back.  And the weather's turned bad, or worse, seeing as it's Ireland we're talking about.  The rain[...]

September 5, 2011

Cats revengeYesterday was one of the biggest days in the Irish sporting calendar: the All-Ireland Hurling Final.  Kilkenny took on[...]

August 17, 2011

Earlier in the week my class had a lesson on Cultural Dos and Don'ts.  We learnt about what to do[...]

August 10, 2011

Postcards from the Edge (of Europe) What postcards say "Ireland" to you?  The Irish Times asked some artists and photographers[...]

August 4, 2011

It would be rude, I think, not to comment on the lack of a blog last week.  I was, you[...]

July 13, 2011

For a recent Irish Times feature 3 journalists tried out different ways of language learning: total immersion; tandem teaching; and[...]

July 6, 2011

A lecturer from Dublin City University was on the radio a few days ago speaking about a planned course in[...]