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Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Seamus HeaneyCatherine 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 their love of Heaney, his use of allusion, aural imagery and a unique, playful tone that manages to discuss personal events in such a way that they are given magical, mythical and eternal qualities. Great art is capable of turning our ordinary existence into something extraordinary, and in Heaney, we...2024-05-2936 min
Temple Carrig NewsA 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 from 'The Merchant Of Venice'.2024-05-1626 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Hamlet - The ProcrastinatorWhen 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.2024-05-1638 min
Temple Carrig NewsA 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'.2024-05-1627 min
Live Learn Survive - Help Yourself - Help Others.Interview with John Doyle of Leinster Lifeguard Academy and Founder of Poseidon Lifesaving Club in Wicklow, Ireland.
John Doyle has a lifelong dedication to water safety, born and raised in Wicklow, Ireland, John is a Beach, Pool, and Open water Trainer Assessor, First Aid Responder Trainer, as well as an active member of the Greystones Coast guard Unit. He is the founder of Poseidon Lifesaving Club, which recently celebrated its 12-year anniversary. John has trained over 300 transition year students at Temple Carrig in Greystones to become community first responders and exemplifies the true spirit of a community leader and water safety advocate. Please enjoy this chat with our friend Mr John Doyle.
2023-10-2749 min
The Happy Pear PodcastScreen-Demic: Mobile Phones, Social Media, Bullying, Porn, FOMO; Learn how to support your child and village's screen usageOur first LIVE podcast! After all the global hype our seaside town Greystones, has been getting post the introduction of the mobile phone ban in primary schools, we decided to speak to the people behind it and learn more.Meet Rachel Harper, St. Patrick’s National School Principle, Andrea Splendori, Podcast Host and front runner behind the initiative, and finally Joshua Barrington, Temple Carrig’s School Chaplain.This is a fascinating conversation that goes far deeper than what you expect, from how and why the initiative ‘It Takes A Village’ started, to school kids bei...2023-10-111h 27
Temple Carrig NewsA 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, without doubt, one of the finest pleasures in life, to be sitting somewhere comfortable, in the sun, with nothing much to do, engrossed in a novel. We take a trip down memory lane to discuss some of the books that left...2023-05-2329 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Emily Dickinson - The dizzying highs, the wonderfully weirdThis 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 The Lady in White. 2023-05-1733 min
Temple Carrig NewsA 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 find these things you are passionate about, it will keep you young! Please do enjoy! We have had a couple of busy weeks but we have a flurry of episodes to come in the final few weeks.
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Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Patrick Kavanagh - Kavanagh, a contrary curmudgeonThis 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 moments of beauty that he found in this turbulent life. 2023-04-2745 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Elizabeth Bishop - EpiphaniesThis 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 poets to study at Senior Cycle. Here, we put on the hard sell, and let you know that if you take your time with Bishop, it can all be ‘rainbow, rainbow, rainbow’ for you too.
Credit goes to Harry Dagg and Johnny Lumley for their re...2023-03-3128 min
Temple Carrig NewsA 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? Join the gang as they bring the Bard’s most beloved story within their bending sickle’s compass, and take a short flight on love’s light wings.2023-03-2329 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Macbeth - Shakespeare The ChancerIts 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 skills at writing thrills to pay the bills? Who likes his shirt with frills? William 'Netflix Exec' Shakespeare!
This week, our host Catherine Hickey is joined by Sean O’Brien and Temple Carrig‘s principal Alan Cox (proud member of both the Mathematics and Economics departments of t...2023-03-1425 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - MasculinityAs 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 masculinity in 'Macbeth'.2023-02-2724 min
Temple Carrig NewsA Door Into The Dark - Macbeth - AmbitionWelcome 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 sparks passion in those who listen and take part.
If there is a text you would like to hear about, or even contribute to (we would like students to get involved too!), please e-mail englishdepartment@templecarrigschool.ie
Our first episode discusses the concept of a...2023-02-2320 min
Temple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 7 Episode 1We're back for our 2022/2023 edition with a new crop of podcasters, talking about Sophie Toscan du Plantier, top-rated crisps and pet peeves, and some general chat led by Rowan...2022-12-1636 min
Temple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig New Season 6 Episode 2Controversy and Double Standards abound in this episode2022-04-2825 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig Season 6 Episode 1And we're back after an extended hiatus! Serial Killers and Controversial Topics start this new classes podcast off!!2022-04-2810 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 5 Episode 4Interview with Mr Simpson and Ms Stout, trends in and out this year, and an interview with Lil Xipz and his collective all the way from Ohio2022-01-1339 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 5 Episode 3Controversial Music and an Interview with Ms Keogh2022-01-1328 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 5 Episode 2Movies, Football and Toy Shows, as we welcome students back in the New Year!2022-01-1330 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 5 Episode 1A new cohort bring us straight into College Awareness Week in TCG with Ms Lynch and a look at what's in the charts!2021-11-2215 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 6NFL, Reincarnation and Formula One - The final podcasts are coming up for this group, get listening before the new batch take over!!2021-11-1036 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 5Interviews with Mr Barrington and Mr Cleary2021-11-1037 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 4Interviews with a local activist promoting a skate park and buzzed quizzes!2021-11-0421 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 3With COP26 taking place this week, the Podcasting crew interview students from the Climate Class.2021-11-0417 min
Temple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 2Banned Books and trips out West!2021-09-3036 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Season 4 - Episode 1Today's first show of the fourth season features football talk, conspiracy theories and commentary on the Irish education system!2021-09-1631 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 7Conversations with Mr Wallace on TY this year, Bigfoot - Real or Fake?, Housing in Greystones, and Mary Shelley.2021-05-1230 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 6Bonus episode - Checking in with with Michael, Celebrity news, Would you rather, and a story about a plane crash in the Andes!2021-05-1026 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 5Chats from the latest series of diaries on 9/11 and conspiracies, talks about trips in TY, and social media, fashion and everything in between.2021-05-1029 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 4A new crew of erstwhile podcasters take on the reins of the lockdown diaries - the end is near2021-03-1548 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 3Dogs, the future of our TY's and Lockdown fever2021-02-0350 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 2Human Feats and Favourite Movies are on the cards in this week's Lockdown Diaries2021-02-0323 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Lockdown Diaries 1With our students in lockdown, we'll be bringing you some remotely recorded podcasts alongside some throwbacks to before Christmas. 2021-01-1938 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 7The penultimate podcast for this class, they focus on Fifa rage, Quiz time with Pim and Adams, and some Christmas fun. Rounding it out is a performance from the music class of Counting Stars!2020-11-1152 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 6The Teacher Podcast! Segments from McGuinness on the US Election, McCarthy on Wellbeing in Temple Carrig, and a quiz with resident eggheads Stout and Wallace2020-11-0551 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 5Conversations with Cleary and McGuinness and some deep thoughts on time travel!2020-10-2145 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 4: BonusBonus episode with Mr O'Brien and Mr O Briain, waxing lyrical on the great conspiracy of 9/112020-10-1429 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 3This week sees an interview with the Sultan of Secretaries Catherine Young, a powerful conversation between Nick and Stephen on Foster Care, The latest Gaming news, and an overview of Holidays around the world.2020-10-1435 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 2This week sees Space talk, Restaurants and a special interview with a guest.2020-10-0728 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News Season 2: Episode 1Welcome back for another year of the Temple Carrig News podcast. featuring conversations around, netflix, music and all things lockdown related!2020-09-3028 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Episode 3Temple Carrig News Episode 3 – This week brings regular segments with Kim’s Kalendar, looking at the Big Quiz and Wicklow Sings, Sophie Clarke’s Sports Report, reporting on recent wins and future victories, and an interview with the TY Musical Directors, Mr Cleary and Mr Wallace, on the upcoming show. Tickets available at the office for €10, 10th/11th and 12th of March, Doors at 7 pm, show at 7.30pm.2020-03-0217 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Episode 2This week the hosts discuss their hopes and dreams, drawing in some inspiration from our first set of leavers as the sixth years prepare for their Leaving Cert and the world beyond Temple Carrig. 2020-02-2714 minTemple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - Episode 1On the inaugural Temple Carrig News Podcast, brought to by Transition Year, we hear from our regular segments Kim's Kalendar, providing updates on what's coming up in Temple Carrig, and Sophie Clarke's Sports Report, with news on past and future matches. Special Guests this week include Ms Newton discussing fashion, and Mr Pim and Mr Wallace discussing the upcoming Superbowl. Rounding off the show is Fortune's fortunes, predictions for sports, the house cup and much more.2020-01-2418 min
Temple Carrig NewsTemple Carrig News - TrailerA preview of an exciting new chapter in Temple Carrig - regular news updates, sports reports, topical news, interviews with teachers and students, and much, much more - Brought to by Transition Year2020-01-1700 min
The Songschool ShowThe Songschool Show @ Temple Carrig GreystonesWe head East to the wonderful Temple Carrig School in Greystones Co Wicklow and the TY Music Intro Class - check out their amazing songs "Pins & Needles" and "DayDream" - thanks to hosts Sophie & Liam2019-12-0607 min
The Songschool ShowThe Songschool Show @ Temple Carrig GreystonesWe head East to the wonderful Temple Carrig School in Greystones Co Wicklow and the TY Music Intro Class - check out their amazing songs "Pins & Needles" and "DayDream" - thanks to hosts Sophie & Liam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2019-12-0607 min
The Left WingBonus Ep: Schools Rugby PreviewThe Six Nations may be fast approaching, but so are the Schools Rugby cup competitions and in a special bonus episode on the Left Wing, Tony Ward joins Will and Luke to preview this year's Schools Rugby with a special supplement appearing in Saturday's Irish Independent.The usual suspects - Blackrock and St. Michaels - are the favourites once again, but Belvedere and Clongowes can never be discounted, while the stand-out tie for the weekend opening fixtures has to be Terenure v St. Marys."The competition was always big," says Tony. "But it's getting bigger and...2019-01-2522 min