Join the local library and get reading!!!!!!!!!!!!
Encourage and support your child in borrowing books from the school's Reading Corners
Persuade them to enter creative writing competitions - many posters are on display around the school regarding upcoming events
Encourage your child to take part in debating/public speaking
Enrol your child in the local library
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Persuade them to enter creative writing competitions - many posters are on display around the school regarding upcoming events
Encourage your child to take part in debating/public speaking
Enrol your child in the local library
Drumshanbo 071-9641258 click here
Manorhamilton 071-9856180 click here
Carrick 071-9620789 click here
Top 100 Reads
Here is a list of 100 books to read before you die as suggested by the listeners to the Sean Moncrieff radio show on Newstalk.
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- Collected Stories – Raymond Carver
- The Book of Evidence – John Banville
- Fragments of a Life Story – Denton Welch
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- The Lay of the Land – Richard Ford
- Money – Martin Amis
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Rabbit, Run – John Updike
- Underworld – Don DeLillo
- Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
- The Watchmen - Alan Moore with artwork by Dave Gibbons
- Hunger – Knut Hamsun
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
- If This Is A Man – Primo Levi
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Tanners – Robert Walser
- Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell – Susanna Clarke
- The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
- The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Huston
- The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- The Liberal Imagination – Lionel Trilling
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Ways of Seeing – John Berger
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The End of History and the Last Man – Francis Fukuyama
- The Open Society and its Enemies – Karl Popper
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
- Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
- The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Autobiography of Malcom X – Alex Haley and Malcolm X
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
- Anam Cara: The Book of Celtic wisdom – John O’Donoghue
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Master – Colm Tobin
- The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Guests of the Nation and other short stories – Frank O’Connor
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The White Hotel – DM Thomas
- Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
- The Visitor – Maeve Brennan
- The Demon Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark) – Carl Saga
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Goodbye To All That – Robert Graves
- Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
- The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
- Cry The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- This Boy’s Life – Tobias Wolff
- Atomised – Michel Houellebecq
- Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe