Alison Collins

English Teacher. ‘For what it’s worth: it’s never too late, or in my case, too early to be who you want to be’ - F. Scott Fitzgerald 📚📽️☕️🇺🇦

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@conorsmurf Well said, Conor. 🙌

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@Munsterpps Any further scores?

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@arealmofwonder @LorraineDillo14 It’s gotta be ‘A’

[Sean Dineen @dineen20dineen]

Memories from your school days did you put brown paper or wallpaper on your school books

[New Yorker Fiction @NYerFiction]

R.I.P. Paul Auster.

"If nothing else, the years have taught me this: if there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it." In a piece from 1995, Auster answers the question "why write?"

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[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ciaraquill @Gearoid_OBrien @ashjclery @Tumedel I like that alliteration, Lorraine! Hope you survived the correcting. Reading an oldie by Sarah Winman for book club I’m in, and really enjoying it. Bringing me back to what we thought or worried about as kids.

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@CBSNenagh @uniofgalway Delighted for you, Emmet! Well deserved 🙌

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@Drom_Camogie Super result! Well done 🙌

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@PremierviewPod @CBSNenagh Fantastic!! We’re all so PROUD here in @CBSNenagh , first time winning the Dean Ryan Cup. Well done to a super squad & management team 🙌🏆💪

[DEAR Ireland @dear_ireland]

'We Stand With Ukraine: An Anthology of Poetry, Prose and Protest'. Edited by John Farrelly, Helen Dwyer & Julian Vignoles. Available now in all good book stores.
@mercierpress #WeStandWithUkraine

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[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@TG4TV 😂

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ashjclery @Tumedel @Gearoid_OBrien @ciaraquill @INOTEnews 2/2 Chidgey is new to me & was recently shortlisted for Dublin Literary prize. The fear of being the bystander strongly comes across, only 150 pgs in. Going to be a harrowing but compelling read. Will report back, hope book-clubbing teachers settling back well to school life🤞🍀

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ashjclery @Tumedel @Gearoid_OBrien @ciaraquill @INOTEnews Currently reading a fantastic but harrowing book Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey kindly lent to me by @cait_riain Horrors of the Holocaust is the background to this restrained, highly structured narrative.Three principal characters tell their story in an archival format.1/2

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ashjclery @Tumedel @Gearoid_OBrien @ciaraquill @INOTEnews Also read The Garnett Girls, took a while for me to warm to the aforementioned sisters & matriarch of the family (never saw so much drinking in one novel 😅) but wanted to find out the secret one of the sisters is hiding. Very enjoyable, easy/breezy read.

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ashjclery @Tumedel @Gearoid_OBrien @ciaraquill @INOTEnews Just to say I finished Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain..boy, an intense read! Set in a church service on one particular day, narrated by each character in turn. Essentially, a painful depiction of a misguided, at times dangerous father through the eyes of his son.

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@CBSNenagh Best of luck, Conor! Show ‘em what you’re made of 🙌💪🪵

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@LorraineDillo14 @ciaraquill @ashjclery @Tumedel @Gearoid_OBrien A good tip! Thanking you 👌

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@cait_riain @ashjclery @LorraineDillo14 @Gearoid_OBrien @Tumedel All read, Catherine, thank you SO much and back in the bag, ready to return. Enjoyed them so much, you have great taste as I always tell you! The book club should just go with your picks. 😄

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@ashjclery @LorraineDillo14 @Gearoid_OBrien @Tumedel @cait_riain
Read this cracker Assembly, a debut novel in one sitting last wk (only 100 pgs) about a successful Black woman, exhausted trying to live within colonial structure of modern Britain. Sharp, subversive & shocking.

[Alison Collins @aptcollins76]

@soundstoryuk All the songs today are rockin’. You got the touch 👌