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Creatives in Conversation - John McGahern
83 hours 51 mins; June 22, 2024
Excuse Me Can You Tell Me Where Paddy Dignam is Buried?
38 mins; June 13, 2024
Bloomsday by Nick Midgely
53 mins; June 09, 2024
Shinaid by Eamann Breen
50 mins; May 26, 2024
Helen Wheels by Fionn Foley
35 mins; May 19, 2024
In the Wings Shinaid by Eamann Breen
15 mins; May 19, 2024
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
46 mins; May 12, 2024
In the Wings - Helen Wheels by Fionn Foley
21 mins; May 12, 2024
In the Wings - Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
19 mins; May 05, 2024
Parked by Aideen Henry
43 mins; May 05, 2024
Shirley Temple Killer Queen by Alan McMonagle
45 mins; April 28, 2024
A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney
9 mins; April 26, 2024
Strutting and Fretting by Chris McHallem.
48 mins; April 21, 2024
Marginalia by Tina Fitzpatrick.
33 mins; April 14, 2024
Hamlet, Prince of Derry adapted by Colin Murphy
48 mins; April 07, 2024
0. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Single Text Question - theme, character development and relationships
3 mins; April 05, 2024
1. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Shakespeare's vision of the world in King Lear is essentially pessimistic . Would you agree
4 mins; April 05, 2024
2. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Theme of Blindness in King Lear
2 mins; April 05, 2024
3. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - What in your opinion are the most important changes that take place in the character of King Lear
5 mins; April 05, 2024
4. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The theme of Family in King Lear
2 mins; April 05, 2024
5. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - In the play, King Lear moves from a position of centrality to one of loneliness and isolation
4 mins; April 05, 2024
6. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Is the character of King Lear more sinned against than sinning
7 mins; April 05, 2024
7. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The experiences of Gloucester
1 min; April 05, 2024
8. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Theme of Blindness in King Lear
1 min; April 05, 2024
9. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Animal images in King Lear
1 min; April 05, 2024
10. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Cordelia plays a very important role in the play King Lear. Analyse.
2 mins; April 05, 2024
11. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The character of Cordelia, quiet, economical, determined in 118 lines of visual language.
6 mins; April 05, 2024
12.Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Animal imagery in King Lear - Discuss
2 mins; April 05, 2024
13. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - King Lear is not a tragic hero, he is really only a victim of circumstances. Discuss.
3 mins; April 05, 2024
14. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The single text question in King Lear - prompts and pitfalls.
2 mins; April 05, 2024
15. Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The Theme of Blindness in King Lear
2 mins; April 04, 2024
16. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 1 - The Love Test and the word Nothing
8 mins; April 04, 2024
17. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 2 - The Gloucester family storyline
7 mins; April 04, 2024
18. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 2 - Edmund manipulates Edgar
4 mins; April 04, 2024
19 .Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 4 - the value of Nothing - Lear, Kent and role of The Fool - Lear's conscience
5 mins; April 04, 2024
20. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 2 Scene 4 - The Dismissal of Lear
7 mins; April 04, 2024
21. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 4 - The Storm Scene
5 mins; April 04, 2024
22. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 5 - The Gloucester Story - Edmund becomes Earl of Gloucester
5 mins; April 04, 2024
23. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 6 -The Mock Trial .The Story as Staircase.
5 mins; April 04, 2024
24. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 7 - The blinding of Gloucester. Cornwall and Regan ‘soul mates in cruelty
4 mins; April 04, 2024
25. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 4 Scene 1
5 mins; April 04, 2024
26. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 4 Scene 6 - Gloucester meets Lear.
6 mins; April 04, 2024
27. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 4 Scene 6 - Scene Study - Gloucester’s ‘death’
6 mins; April 04, 2024
28. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 4 Scene 7 - Lear, Cordelia and The Doctor
4 mins; April 04, 2024
29. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 5 Scene 3 - The death of Cordelia
6 mins; April 04, 2024
30. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 5 Scene 3 - The final movement - Lear, Cordelia and Edmund
5 mins; April 04, 2024
31. Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 5 Scene 3 - The final movement - Edgar meets Edmund. Towards the conclusion of the Gloucester Story
5 mins; April 04, 2024
32. Lear in Longford - Why study Shakespeare's King Lear
2 mins; April 04, 2024
33. Lear in Longford - Two families Gloucester and Lear
1 min; April 04, 2024
34. Lear in Longford - The structure and economy of King Lear
2 mins; April 04, 2024
35. Lear in Longford - King Lear - Subplot, information and letters
2 mins; April 04, 2024
36. Lear in Longford - The Journeys of Lear and Gloucester
2 mins; April 04, 2024
37. Lear in Longford - Lear as the Tragedy of Despair. Comparisons to Hamlet and Macbeth.
2 mins; April 04, 2024
38. Lear in Longford - Actor and director Alan Stanford on directing King Lear.
2 mins; April 04, 2024
39. Lear in Longford - The image of the Wheel and the Journey
1 min; April 04, 2024
40. Lear in Longford - The Theme of Nature in King Lear
2 mins; April 04, 2024
41. Lear in Longford - The Main Plot, the Sub Plot and the Parallel Plot in King Lear - Introduction, expansion, conclusion
6 mins; April 04, 2024
42. Lear in Longford - Why Cordelia and The Fool don’t meet in King Lear
1 min; April 04, 2024
43. Lear in Longford - Selfishness and selflessness in King Lear.
4 mins; April 04, 2024
44A. Lear in Longford - The purpose of the subplot in King Lear
5 mins; April 04, 2024
44. Lear in Longford - Two Favourite Quotes - The image of the Storm scenes
2 mins; April 04, 2024
45. Lear in Longford - The Image of Nothing in King Lear - the word appears over 30 times in the play.
1 min; April 04, 2024
46. Lear in Longford - Three Favourite quotes
3 mins; April 04, 2024
47. Lear in Longford - Four Favourite Quotes
2 mins; April 04, 2024
48. Lear in Longford - Three Favourite Quotes
2 mins; April 04, 2024
49. Lear in Longford - Three Favourite Quotes
2 mins; April 04, 2024
49A. Lear in Longford - Favourite Quotes - Lear in Act 3 Scene 2 , I am a man more sinned against
1 min; April 04, 2024
50. Lear in Longford - Four Favourite quotes and why
2 mins; April 04, 2024
51. Lear in Longford - Five Favourite quotes
4 mins; April 04, 2024
52. Lear in Longford - Favourite Quote - Lear in Act 4 Scene 7 - I’m a Foolish fond old man …
1 min; April 04, 2024
53. Lear in Longford - Two Favourite Quotes - 1
1 min; April 04, 2024
54. Lear in Longford - OVERTURE 1
2 mins; April 04, 2024
55. Lear in Longford - OVERTURE 2
2 mins; April 04, 2024
56. Lear in Longford - OVERTURE 3
2 mins; April 04, 2024
57. Lear in Longford - OVERTURE 4
2 mins; April 04, 2024
58. Lear in Longford - King Lear Quiz 2
4 mins; April 04, 2024
59. Lear in Longford - King Lear Quiz 3
4 mins; April 04, 2024
60. Lear in Longford - King Lear Quiz 4
4 mins; April 04, 2024
King Lear by William Shakespeare
186 hours 39 mins; April 02, 2024
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
117 hours 30 mins; April 01, 2024
Listening to Hamlet
55 mins; March 31, 2024
0. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Explore the similarities and differences in the characters
2 mins; March 30, 2024
1. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Theme of Kingship. Act 1.. Sc. 7 Lines 16 - 20
5 mins; March 30, 2024
2. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Character of The Witches. Act 1. Sc.3 Lines 48-50
3 mins; March 30, 2024
3. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Character of Macbeth
6 mins; March 30, 2024
4. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The purpose of the Soliloquy - Act 3. Sc. 4. Lines 135 - 140. I am in blood stepp'd in so far ..
7 mins; March 30, 2024
5. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Macbeth is a man of noble disposition dragged down by his wife's coarser nature. Discuss
7 mins; March 30, 2024
6. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The role of The Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth
7 mins; March 30, 2024
7. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Shakespeare uses imagery in Macbeth to express, develop and illustrate his themes. Discuss
8 mins; March 30, 2024
8. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - In her final scenes Lady Macbeth is isolated in her suffering and in her mental state
5 mins; March 30, 2024
9. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Explore the use of language in Macbeth
1 min; March 30, 2024
10. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The The role and speech patterns of The Witches. Act 1. Sc. 1. Lines 1 - 12
3 mins; March 30, 2024
11. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Explore the theme of the supernatural in Shakespeare's Macbeth
3 mins; March 30, 2024
12. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Discuss the role and importance of Kingship in Shakespeare
6 mins; March 30, 2024
13. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer -A comparative study highlightiing the cultural contexts of Shakespeare's Macbeth
5 mins; March 30, 2024
14. Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer -We feel very little pity for the central characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play
10 mins; March 30, 2024
15. Macbeth in Monaghan - The structure of Macbeth - The Prophesy, The Murder, The Betrayal, The Genocide and The Revenge
2 mins; March 30, 2024
16. Macbeth in Monaghan - The Role of the Witches
3 mins; March 30, 2024
17. Macbeth in Monaghan - We meet Macbeth and Banquo. Act 1. Sc.3. Lines 39 - 69
2 mins; March 30, 2024
18. Macbeth in Monaghan - Macbeth's Indecision - The move from Prophesy to Murder
