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Papers throw up no nasty surprises
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
EXAM TIMES: LEAVING CERT ENGINEERING, HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVELS: THERE WERE no nasty shocks for engineering students on the final day of the Leaving Certificate exams, as they opened papers that were “largely similar to other years”, according to TUI subject representative Dan Keane, a teacher in Beaufort College in Navan.
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Paper adds up to a fair and interesting test
20.06.2008 23:28
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LEAVING CERT APPLIED MATHS: HIGHER LEVEL: AN EXAM with, "Something for everyone," was the verdict on the Leaving Cert applied maths paper yesterday afternoon. Teachers praised the paper as well written and carefully structured.
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Opening tricky but fair overall
20.06.2008 23:28
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LEAVING CERT: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCEHIGHER-LEVEL: A TRICKY opening may have thrown some, but students soon settled into what was, overall, a "very fair" agricultural science paper yesterday afternoon.
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Etchings in the realm of the divine
20.06.2008 23:27
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An exhibition of Rembrandt's etchings at the Chester Beatty Library will be one of the cultural highlights of the summer, writes Aidan Dunne
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Holidays
Revelations in God's empty house
20.06.2008 23:26
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In a break from directing a play he wrote more than 30 years ago, Tom Murphy recollects the work's genesis in a stirring piece of storytelling
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A history in his mouth
20.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
A new novel which explores themes of destiny and identity confirms Hugo Hamilton as one of the most important writers of our time
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Holidays
Reforging the memory of women's lives
20.06.2008 23:26
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HISTORY: 'WE LIVE BY stories and the longer we live, the more we live through our own stories and those handed down to us by families."
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A valuable take on the history of Irish theatre
20.06.2008 23:26
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CULTURE SHOCK: THE EPHEMERAL nature of theatre is a truism. A play text may survive, but the things that make that text theatre - the performances, the designs, the direction, above all, the audience - vanish either into memory or into its near neighbour, oblivion.
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Making himself heard above the artistic din
20.06.2008 23:26
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In his journey from Eton to Kilmainham Gaol, Damian Lewis has managed to live down his past to become one of the most exciting English actors of his day, writes Donald Clarke
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Free and full
20.06.2008 23:26
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In a new story, Glenn Patterson responds to Article 29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of a continuing series in association with Amnesty International to mark the 60th anniversary of the declaration
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Scoops and plaudits for Abbey and Druid
20.06.2008 23:26
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ARTSCAPE: BIG INTERNATIONAL news for Irish theatre this week. Druid and the Abbey may have had their disagreements earlier this year over staging 2000 O'Casey's work, but now both, independently, have let impressive news out of the bag
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Midsummer mystery
20.06.2008 23:26
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Stonehenge has always had a special place in the heart of Englands' writers, poets, painters and dreamers. A new book looks at its long but mysterious history
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Identifying nature's plenty is job for the professionals
20.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
ANOTHER LIFE: KNOWING THE names of things is only an option in loving nature, writes Michael Viney
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