Away with words
A feast of stories this weekend – and not a word in sight. The Silent […]
A feast of stories this weekend – and not a word in sight. The Silent […]
Great to be part of the One Book, One Tuam reading drive this week. Schoolchildren, […]
A big cheer for Silent Books. This travelling exhibition of more than 100 wordless picture […]
One of the highlights of my week is working with the children of asylum seekers […]
After the sobering choice of xenophobia* as the Dictionary.com word of the year, what a […]
Twigs, wigs, cardboard axes and glittery wings … props are flying round the classroom as […]
There’s a lot of it about. Shouting sisters, shouting brothers, shouting fathers, shouting mothers, get […]
Amid all the Trumpery this week (was ever a name so perfect? The Oxford English […]
Words are the most beautiful, precious, miraculous gifts of humanity. They’re also the most annoying […]
You couldn’t find much richer soil for an international storytelling competition than St. Patrick’s Primary […]
There are two kinds of people in the world. Trump supporters and … no. People […]
I have to write about traffic wardens. I’ve tried to avoid it for ages. But […]
First impressions can be surprisingly accurate, though they often get buried with time and familiarity. […]
It’s a tricky one, magic. Who doesn’t love a slice of the impossible in a […]
One more day and she’ll be swimming across Irish screens again, that ditzy fish from […]
There’s something spine-tickling about seeing a Michelangelo sculpture in the flesh, or rather pale, silky […]
What a time of walls. As a Brit living in Ireland, it’s been the saddest […]
Books that come to life to fight leprechauns, one-legged grannies with swords made from verrucas, […]
The dictionary defines momentous as ‘very important or significant, especially in having a bearing on […]
The French writer and all round clever-clogs Montaigne described a close shave at his 16th […]