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Temple Carrig News
by Temple Carrig Greystones
Weekly updates on sports, events, interviews and much more from Temple Carrig School, Greystones
Episodes
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A Door Into The Dark - King Lear & The Art Of Letting Go
A Door Into The Dark is back, with host Catherine Hickey, grizzled veterans Eorann Kavanagh and Sean O’Brien, and fresh faced newbie Eoghan Cleary, as they provide some insights into the struggle for power, and the cost of its pursuit, in medieval(ish) England.
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A Door Into The Dark - Seamus Heaney
Catherine Hickey is joined by Georgia Lee Flynn, Eorann Kavanagh and Patrick Murtagh to discuss the powerful, playful poet Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney is a beloved Irish poet, winner of the Noble Prize for Literature, and former resident of the Garden of Ireland. In this pod, the crew discuss...
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A Door Into The Dark - The Merchant Of Venice - Was Shakespeare anti-Semitic?
Our first foray into the Junior Cycle shows us deliberating a challenging question; was William Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Georgia-Lee Flynn, Sean O'Brien, and your host, Catherine Hickey give the question some thought, while Second Year student Oliver O'Neill delivers Shylock's iconic monologue...
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A Door Into The Dark - Hamlet - The Procrastinator
When a man cannot even decide if he wishes to be or not, it is unlikely he is going to be very productive. Is Hamlet's procrastination understandable, or unbelievably frustrating? Let's take a deep dive with Georgia-Lee Flynn, Sean O'Brien, and your host, Catherine Hickey.
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A Door Into The Dark - Hamlet - Corruption
'A Door Into The Dark' makes a return, just in time for our 3rd and 6th Years getting ready to take their exams. In this episode, Georgia-Lee Flynn and Sean O'Brien join Catherine Hickey to discuss the central theme of corruption in 'Hamlet'.
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A Door Into The Dark - Summer Reading...Had Me A Blast!
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” -George R.R. Martin This week, our host Catherine Hickey is joined by Eorann Kavanagh, Georgia Lee Flynn, and Sean O'Brien, to discuss the pleasure of reading during the summer holidays. It is,...
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A Door Into The Dark - Emily Dickinson - The dizzying highs, the wonderfully weird
This week, without regular host Catherine Hickey, Patrick Murtagh and Sean O’Brien go wildly off topic as they discuss Dickinson. Taking detours through Delgany, Darwin’s ‘Origin Of The Species’, shifty lawyers, Elvis Presley and Coca Cola advertising campaigns, the gruesome twosome get cosy with...
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A Door Into The Dark - Shakespeare - Happy Birthday William!
This week, Catherine is joined by Sean O’Brien and former St. Columba’s College English teacher John Fanagan. John’s experience as an English teacher of 35 years is touched upon, as well as his unbridled passion for Shakespeare’s works. To any and all young people listening, it is important to…
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A Door Into The Dark - Patrick Kavanagh - Kavanagh, a contrary curmudgeon
This week, our host Catherine Hickey is joined by Sean O’Brien and history teacher extraordinaire John Simpson. John provides the inside track on all things Monaghan, as he grew up near ‘Billy Brennan’s Barn’, just off the Iniskeen Road. We discuss the difficult character that he was, and the...
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A Door Into The Dark - Elizabeth Bishop - Epiphanies
This week, our host Catherine Hickey is joined by Patrick Murtagh and Sean O’Brien to discuss one of their favourite poets: Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop’s discerning eye for detail, her emotional depth and knack for writing from unique perspectives mean that she can be one of the more challenging…
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A Door Into The Dark - Romeo & Juliet - The Ultimate Representation of Romantic Love?
This week our host Catherine Hickey is joined by Georgia-Lee Flynn, Eorann Kavanagh, and 6th Year students Lily McCann and Amy Kennedy to discuss Shakespeare’s ode to young love, Romeo & Juliet. Did Shakespeare nail it? Is this the perfect depiction of romantic love? Still? After all these years?...
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A Door Into The Dark - Macbeth - Shakespeare The Chancer
Its 1606, in the jolly old town of London. Jesuit revolutionaries have just tried to blow up Westminster, women are being accused of witchcraft across the country. There is a new king, who hails from the mysterious, dark hinterland of Scotland. Who can make sense of this crazy world? Who has…
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A Door Into The Dark - Masculinity
As a school, we have decided to look at issues surrounding gender identity in the world we now live in. Four hundred years ago, Shakespeare was also investigating the pitfalls of masculinity in his tragedy 'Macbeth'. Join Catherine Hickey, Patrick Murtagh and Sean O'Brien as they discuss...
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A Door Into The Dark - Macbeth - Ambition
Welcome to the first episode of the TCG English Department's podcast 'A Door Into The Dark'! Each week, we will bring you a conversation about different English texts that are on the Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle courses. We want to share our passion for the subject, and hope that it…
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