20 Jun 2011
In the programme, Joe explains how he always regretted leaving school early with poor literacy. “I’ve never really written a story before and I don’t know what way it’s going to turn out…hopefully my spelling’s alright,” he says.
“Anyone is vulnerable in a situation where they are showing words to...
13 Jun 2011
“The new website features all the stories from the TV series and contains lots of handy tips if you need help writing a story. Stories and poems can be entered under a number of categories, including achievement, family, friends, humour, kindness, love and relationships, and poetry. All you have to...
9 Jun 2011
Keynote speakers:• Jane Allemano, Teacher educator, Institute of Education, University of London• Dr Lorna Carson, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin• Dee Doyle, ESOL and Socialisation Tutor with the Adult Refugee Programme, Co. Dublin VEC
Who should attend?• ESOL...
6 Jun 2011
A Story with Me in it is a new documentary series which teams up well known Irish Writers Dermot Bolger, Sheila O' Flanagan, Alice Taylor, Peter Sheridan, Louis De Paor and Marita Conlon McKenna, with six adults who have struggled with literacy throughout their lives.
Each programme will focus on...
1 Jun 2011
Paul Hughes was one of three children from a single parent family and left school at the age of 13 not being able to read or write. “I suppose from a very young age it affected me. I never got involved in anything that there was a pen involved in. I would always shy away from it,” says Paul, who...
30 May 2011
A Story with Me in it is a personal transformation series that focuses on the journey of each individual person. It is a fresh, honest, often moving and insightful look at how people cope with having to learn the basic skills many of us take for granted. “One in four adults in Ireland have...
11 May 2011
“If you asked me to clean a thousand houses I could do it, but if you asked me to fill in a form I’d be gone”
Quote from Eileen Sheehan, Moyross, Limerick, star of the new TV series ‘A story with Me in it’
In the first episode on Monday 16 May, Eileen Sheehan, a mother of three from Moyross in...
9 May 2011
Selected from over 100 entries by a high profile judging panel the winning entries were;
The Irish Heart Foundation’s F.A.S.T stroke awareness campaign - The Irish Heart Foundation used the acronym F.A.S.T (Face, Arms, Speech and Time to call 999) to help people remember the main warning signs of...
4 May 2011
Some of the main impacts of different areas of NALA’s student work
1. Students’ representation on NALA’s Executive CommitteeImpact: It appears beneficial for NALA to have student representation at this level but more information is necessary. A way to collect more evidence of students’ important...
14 Apr 2011
“There has been much written in recent months of the decline in literacy levels among Ireland’s 15 year olds – why is it happening and what’s wrong with our schools? But does anyone ask what are we doing for these young people now that they have left school without the basic skills required to...