POST PRIMARY ENGLISH RESOURCES
TEXTS		Number of Copies
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart	1
Angelou, Maya	I know why the caged bird sings	1
Atwood, Margaret	Cat's Eye	1
Ballard, James G	Empire of the Sun	1
Barker, Pat	Regeneration	1
Bell, Sam Hanna	December Bride	2
Bielenberg, Christabel	The Past is Myself	1
Binchy, Maeve	Circle of Friends	1
Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre	1
Carey, Peter	True History of the Kelly Gang	1
Chang, Jung	Wild Swans	1
Chatwin, Bruce	In Patagonia	1
Chevalier, Tracy	Girl with a Pearl Earring	1
Coetzee, J M	Boyhood	1
Deane, Seamus	Reading in the Dark	1
Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations	1
Frayn, Michael	Spies	1
Friel, Brian	Philadelphia, here I come	2
Friel, Brian	Dancing at Lughnasa	1
Gordimer, Nadine	The House Gun	2
Haddon, Mark	The Curious Incident of the Dog…..	1
Hardy, Thomas	Far from the Madding Crowd	1
Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll’s House	1
Ishiguro, Kazuo	The Remains of the Day	1
Johnston, Jennifer	How many miles to Babylon?	1
Joyce, James	Portrait of the Artist	2
Joyce, James	Dubliners	1
Keane, J B	Three Plays	1
Keenan, Brian	An Evil Cradling	1
Kingsolver, Barbara	The Poisonwood Bible	1
Lee, Laurie	A Moment of War	1
Leonard, Hugh	Home before Night	1
Lessing, Doris	The Grass is singing	1
Lively, Penelope	City of the Mind	1
Lively, Penelope	Moon Tiger	1
Macken, Walter	The Silent People	1
Madden, Deirdre	One by One in the Darkness	1
Malouf, David	Fly Away Peter	1
Mehta, Gita	A River Sutra	1
Miller, Arthur	Death of a Salesman	1
Miller, Arthur	A View from the Bridge/All my Sons	1
Moore, Brian	Lies of Silence	2
Moore Brian	The Statement	1
McCabe, Eugene	Death and Nightingales	1
McGahern, John	Amongst Women	1
McGuinness, Frank	Someone who'll watch over me	1
McLaverty, Michael	Lamb	1
McMahon, Brian	The Master	1
Murphy, Dervla	Wheels within Wheels	1
Naipaul, V S	An Area of Darkness	1
O'Brien, Kate	The Land of Spices	1
O'Brien, Kate Cruise	The Homesick Garden	1
O’Casey, Sean	Three Plays	1
O'Connor, Frank	My Oedipus Complex  & other stories	1
O’Hanlon, Redmond	Into the Heart of Borneo	1
Patchett, Ann	Bel Canto	1
Proulx, Annie	Heart Songs	1
Shakespeare, William	Othello	1
	King Lear	1
	Hamlet	1
	Henry V	1
Sophocles	Oedipus, Antigone	1
Spark, Muriel	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	1
Steinbeck, John	Of Mice and Men	1
Taylor, Mildred	The Road to Memphis	1
Toibin, Colm	The Blackwater Lightship	1
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1
Tyler, Anne	A Slipping Down Life	2
Yoshimura, Akira	Shipwrecks	1
Other Books:
Austen, Jane	Persuasion
Austen, Jane	Emma
Larkin, Philip	Collected Poems
Bishop, Elizabeth	Complete Poems
Ed. By Michael Kenneally	Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature
Corcoran, Niall	The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Bate, Jonathan	The Genius of Shakespeare
Boland, Eavan	Object Lessons
Kirkby, Joan	Emily Dickinson
Brown, Christy	My Left Foot
Notes for Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Far from the Madding Crowd
Forde, Marion	Comparisons (Jane Eyre, King Lear, How many miles etc)
Lerner, Laurence	Philip Larkin (2)
Monaco, James	How to read a film (3)
Nicholl, John	Film Studies
	New Film Studies
Introduction to the Study of Film	Tony Tracy
Conlan, Seán
Irish Film Centre
Wilson Knight, G
Screenplays of Strictly Ballroom, Cinema Paradiso, The Third Man, On the Waterfront
The Wider Reading File (2)
Shortcuts to Success – Macbeth Exam Guide	Gill & Macmillan
School Dictionary	Gill & Macmillan
Junior Cert English Experience 1 & 2	Gill & Macmillan
ACTION RESEARCH
Journal of Inservice Education Vol 27 No 1 2001
Reflective Practice Vol 2 No 1 2001
McNiff, Lomax and Whitehead
Sharry, Madden and Darmody
Ajmal and Rees (ed)	Solutions in Schools
READING RECOVERY
Clay, Marie	Reading Recovery
(The above also in Special Ed and LEC Books file)
FILMS ON VIDEO
SYLLABUS FILMS:
Cinema Paradiso		2
Dances with Wolves		2
My Left Foot		3
Much Ado about Nothing		2
The Third Man		2
Richard the Third		1
Strictly Ballroom		2
On the Waterfront		2
Il Postino		1
Witness x 2 ( one BBC 2 hours)		2
The Dead		1
Jane Eyre (BBC 2006) 4 hour  (Video)		1
Playboy of the Western World (RTE 1 2007) J.M. Synge  (Video)		1
Lord of the Flies – The Guardian DVD		1
Cinema Paradiso – The Guardian DVD		1
Twelve Angry Men DVD		1
FILMS OF TEXTS:
Shakespeare
Macbeth		1
Henry V		2
Othello		1
King Lear		1
Hamlet		1
Julius Caesar		1
Romeo and Juliet ( One RTE  2 hours)		2
Twelfth Night		1
The Merchant of Venice		1
As You Like It		1
One copy of each:
Far from the Madding Crowd
Remains of the Day
Great Expectations (3 Versions [one starring John Mills, one modern version starring  Ethan Hawke & Gwyneth Paltrow] + one BBC adaptation)
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Empire of the Sun
Death of a Salesman		3
Wuthering Heights
Emma (RTE & Channel 4)
Circle of Friends (TV)
Amongst Women (TV, minus last episode)
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (TV)
Jane Eyre (TV)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV)
The Great Gatsby (TV)
Under the Greenwood Tree (TV)
The Importance of Being Earnest (TV)
The Field (TV)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare CD
TESS of the D'urbervilles (BBC1 4 hours)
Taped interviews with:
Margaret Atwood
Michael Longley
Seamus Deane
Jennifer Johnston (radio)
John McGahern
Documentaries on:
Frank O’Connor
Dylan Thomas
Wilfred Owen
Sean O’Casey
Also:
LC English CD Rom		6
LC English Resource Materials for Teaching Language		5
LC English Draft Guidelines		10
LC English Syllabus		13
LC English Chief Examiner’s Report 1997
TESS Final Report		1
TESS Newsletters (complete – 2003)
TESS Newsletters (individual – various)
LC English Exams 2001 & 2002 – papers, marking schemes etc
JC English  Guidelines		4
JC English Syllabus		5
Book Choice for Primary Schools		2
Book Choice for Post-Primary Schools		2
Language Now - Comprehending and Composing	Kate O Carroll	1
JC English New Frontiers - 2nd & 3rd Year	Pauline Kelly
LC English New Frontiers in Language  - Comprehending & Composing Teacher's Manual       Pauline Kelly		1
LC English Ordinary level New Frontiers in Language 1 - Comprehending & Composing          Pauline Kelly		1
Write Now! The Practical Approach to Leaving certificate English Paper 1       Mary O' Maolmhuire		1
Language for Living - Comprehending & Composing for LC English O & H  P Murray & K McDermott
New Explorations - Complete Anthology for LC H & O Poetry for Examination in 2003 & Onwards		1
New Explorations Critical Notes on Prescribed Poetry for H & O Level 2004 Examination		11
New Explorations Critical Notes on Prescribed Poetry for H & O Level 2003 Examination
Explorations 2 - New Language & Writing Skills for LC Higher	Anne Gormley	1	1
Explorations 3 - In-depth Notes & Comparative Studies on Texts for LC English
New Awakenings - Complete Poetry, Language & Writing Skills for LC Ord. Level		1
Discovery - Leaving Certificate Poetry Anthology for Ord. Level	x 2	1
What's the Story? Reading Choices of Young People in Ireland	CBI	1
Selected Poetry	WB Yates	1
IBSEN	Wilson Knight	1
Poetry Notes LC Higher Level 2001/02 x 2		1
Poetry Notes LC Ordinary Level 2001/02 x 2
Discovery - Leaving Certificate Poetry Anthology for H & O Level		1
Language Matters - Skills in Language & Literature for New LC English Syllabus x 2		1
LC Poetry Notes H level 2003		1
Images 2	Kevin McDermott	1
New Discovery - LC Poetry Anthology for H & O Level 2003		1
Carousel - Introduction to JC English	Padraic Nolan	1
Chrysalis - English for JC	Padraic Nolan	1
Inklings - LC English Poetry Higher Level	James McCabe	1
English Handouts
COMPARATIVE HANDOUTS	FILM HANDOUTS	Poetry Handouts
Text Lists 2001 – 2007	Cinema Paradiso	General – on teaching poetry
Achebe, C	My Left Foot	Adcock, Fleur
Angelou, M	Room with a View	Bishop, Elizabeth
Atwood, M	Much Ado about  Nothing	Boland, Eavan
Barker, P	Strictly Ballroom	Dickinson, Emily
Bell, S Hanna	Richard III	Durcan, Paul
Bronte, C	The Third Man	Grennan, Eamon
Cruise O’Brien, K	The Dead	Hartnett, Michael
Deane, S	On the Waterfront	Heaney, Seamus
Friel, B	Amelie	Hewitt, John
Ibsen, H		Ni Chuilleanain, Eileen
Ishiguro, K		Larkin, Philip
Johnston, J		Longley, Michael
Keenan, B		Mahon, Derek
Lessing, D		Montague, John
Lively, P		Plath, Sylvia
Macken,W		Sassoon, Siegfried
Madden, D		Smith, Stevie
Malouf, D		Stainer, Pauline
Miller, A		Wilbur, Richard
Moore, B		Wright, Judith
McCabe, E
McGahern, J
McGuinness, F
O’Connor, F
Oz, A
Shakespeare, W: Twelfth Night
Sophocles
Taylor, M
Junior Cert Teaching Drama Comparative Practical Handouts
Teaching the Junior Cert English – suitable texts – model classes – poetry etc
Teaching drama – drama in education – Macbeth – Romeo and Juliet – LC and JC exam questions on drama – exploring drama in education – drama in education techniques
Comparative – general teaching notes – themes:vision and viewpoint,     social setting, cultural context – examining a key moment – visual literacy – etc
Examples of practical comparative – Hal’s talk to students on the comparative and the exam – comparative techniques etc
Language and Reading Handouts
Handouts on teaching language – comprehending and composing – examples – model classes etc
Teaching Reading – Reading recovery – reading lists –strategies – reading bands – critical literacy – pre-reading – reading diary etc