USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR UNIT 9

WARM UP

https://learnoutlive.com/pleasure-reading-foreign-language/

https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2011/12/08/reading-with-for-pleasure-in-elt/

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/extensive-reading-why-it-good-our-students%E2%80%A6-us


PART 2 IRISH WRITING

http://artrogersstore.blogspot.ie/2012/07/irish-literature-what-makes-irish.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/why-is-irish-writing-so-in-vogue/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_literature


PART 3 FAMOUS IRISH WRITERS

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/our-top-ten-irish-novelists-of-all-time-126080063-237787691

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_writers

http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-irish-authors/info-lists

Irish-Writers

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/twenty-irish-novels-to-read-before-you-die-photos-119391839-237736631.html


PART 4 FAMOUS IRISH WRITERS – QUOTES


PART 5 JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER

CECILIA AHERN

TANA FRENCH

ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY

SALLY ROONEY

EOIN COLFER

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/30-great-opening-lines-in-literature/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahgalo/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer?utm_term=.ngO9XQqeq#.gaLWAqNON

GENRES

http://reference.yourdictionary.com/books-literature/different-types-of-books.html

https://www.goodreads.com/genres


PART 6 AN IRISH POEM

AUSTIN CLARKE

A famous Irish TV ad featuring the poem.


ON YOUR OWN

Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

http://irishwriterscentre.ie/

Joyce Museum, Dublin

http://jamesjoycetower.com/

Yeats Museum, Sligo

http://www.sligoarts.ie/VenuesProfile/YeatsMemorialBuilding/


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Joyce statue, Dublin

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Wilde statue, Dublin


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Yeats statue, Sligo

 


BOOK UNITS

Unit 1 Questions about Ireland

Unit 2 Irish Food

Unit 3 Irish Physical Characteristics

Unit 4 Traditional Irish Music

Unit 5 Visual Ireland

Unit 6 A Nice Cuppa

Unit 7 English Spoken in Ireland

Unit 8 Irish Weather

Unit 9 Irish Literature

Unit 10 Irish Culture and History

Unit 11 Irish History on Film

Unit 12 Survival – Irish Adventurers

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Quote of the week

“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.” 

– Sigmund Freud about the Irish