| The role of Mr. Tom Mullins (NCCA Education
Officer for English) is acknowledged for researching, writing and editing
these Guidelines in English.
Acknowledgements are owed to all members
(past and present) of the NCCA
Ms. B. McCullough, Chairperson (ATE) Prof. B. Cosgrove (Maynooth) Ms. Fiona De Buis (TUI) Prof. N. Grene (TCD) Ms. C. Hannay (TUI) Mr. J. Hurley (ASTI) Rev. Fr. J. Looby S.J. (JMB) Prof. H. McDermott (NCEA) Mr. G. Martin (Dept. of Education and Science) Dr. S. Matterson (TCD) Ms. D. Meade (ACS) Mr. E. Ó Baoighill (Dept. of Education and Science) Ms. S. Parsons (ASTI) Mr. J. Slattery (IVA). Acknowledgements are owed to the following teachers and educationalists whose comments and suggestions on various sections were of benefit: Paddy Boland, Sean Conlan, Helen Cooney, Mary Gillen, Gary Granville, Marjorie Kinsella, Marian McCarthy, Eamonn McGrath, John Nicholl, Helen O’Connor, Declan O’Neill, Harold O’Neill, Tony Tracy and Kevin Williams. For permission to use materials acknowledgements are owed to: Carcanet Press, Manchester: for This Moment, Eavan Boland; for This is just to say, William Carlos Williams. Coillte Publications, Dublin: for an extract from Discovering Ireland’s Woodlands. Faber and Faber, London: for Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock, Wallace Stevens; for Ireland, Tom Paulin. The Examiner, Cork: for Photographic materials The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co Meath for Throwing the Beads, Sean Dunne. The Irish Times, Dublin for the following: Increase in Tourism in North of Ireland, Michael Foley, October 4th, 1995 Why Demonise Adoption? Aideen Clifford, October 5th, 1997 Spice Girls, Sexualisation and pre-teen girls, Aine McCarthy, January 20th, 1997 and for a cartoon by Martyn Turner, July 24th, 1998 Routledge Kegan, London for extracts from autobiographical essays by Maeve Binchy and Polly Devlin in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, 1986 Edit. John Quinn. The Sunday Tribune Magazine, Dublin The Cringe Factor, May 11th, 1997  |