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The Teaching English Support Service Developing language skills through reading texts To book a place, fax Blackrock Education Centre 01 236 5070 Kildare Education Centre
Drama in the Classroom for A very welcome new text for the 2004 examination is Deirdre Madden's wonderful story of three sisters, One by One in the Darkness. This author, who comes from County Antrim, has been awarded the Somerset Maugham and Rooney prizes, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Deirdre is currently writing an article about One by One in the Darkness for the next edition of TESS. We look forward to reading that. One by One in the Darkness is set in her native Northern Ireland. It explores friendship, family, memory and loss, seen through the eyes of her women characters. This very poignant story of family relationships traces a week in the lives of 3 sisters just before the 1994 IRA ceasefire. The narrative is intercut with episodes from their childhood. It gives a very honest account of over 30 years of life in Northern Ireland. Faber and Faber have just published her most recent novel, Authenticity which is set in contemporary Dublin and tells the stories of the lives of three artists, their work and their relationships in their personal lives. "I see it as a book about three artists and the choices you must make," she says. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), are marking their 50th anniversary with the publication of a new English edition of "A Bridge of Children's Books". This is the autobiography of Jella Lepman who did heroic work in post-war Germany to bring books back into the lives of war-torn children. She founded the International Youth Library in Munich and in the 1950s established the IBBY. The book, which is published in association with O'Brien Press, includes a foreword by Mary Robinson.
It will include sessions on making the school library a friendly place
for special needs students, on ICT packages for Marino have recently republished Niall McMonagle's two lovely anthologies of poetry and short stories for adolescent readers. Real Cool is a modern anthology of Irish and international poetry, while Outside In offers twenty contemporary short stories for teenage readers. Young Playwright Competition Full details from Brendan McArdle, St. Andrew's College, Booterstown
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