Logainm Competition

Logainm Competition

Logainm is an Irish website containing a database of the placenames of Ireland. The site comes in an English version or a Gaeilge version and you can switch between both quite easily. The purpose of the site is to make available to the public Irish place names that...
Seomra Ranga is Scoilnet Site of the Week

Seomra Ranga is Scoilnet Site of the Week

Seomra Ranga has been selected as the Site of the Week on Scoilnet for this week. This is a great honour for the Seomra Ranga website to be highlighted again on Ireland’s largest portal site for education. Scoilnet referred to Seomra Ranga as the “multi...
Book Review: SOS Lusitania

Book Review: SOS Lusitania

I just couldn’t put it down! The standard of writing is brilliant! I would absolutely recommend this book to my friends. Thirteen year old Finbar is from Queenstown, Co.Cork. His father is the staff captain of a huge liner called the Lusitania. Finbar’s father has to...
SMS Generator

SMS Generator

I just came across this great new tool for the classroom on Russell Tarr’s Class Tools website. It is called an SMS Generator. This tool allows you to create a mock text message conversation within this free online tool. It is a really easy tool to use and so...
Walker Éireann Book Competition

Walker Éireann Book Competition

To celebrate the second week of Seachtain na Gaeilge, Walker Éireann have kindly sponsored three book packs as Gaeilge as prizes for a competition on the site. Walker Éireann, an imprint of Walker Books, has recently teamed up with Foras na Gaeilge and translated four...
Dúshlán 1881 – Living the Eviction on RTÉ 1

Dúshlán 1881 – Living the Eviction on RTÉ 1

Living the Eviction is a new series commencing this Monday March 11th on RTÉ 1. Ronan Mac Aodha Bhui presents the programme as two families spend three days living as their ancestors would have done in the late 19th century during an impoverished time, retelling the...