HONESTY: THE STINGING FLY ON THE RUMP OF FREE STATE RESPECTABILITY

Honesty: The Stinging Fly on the Rump of Free State Respectability

This essay will examine the exposé of the realities regarding poverty, immorality and sexual crime in the Irish Free State by the radical journal Honesty (1925-1931).Honesty was edited by the socialist republican James W.Upton, a man with a longstanding commitment to the rights of women and the poor.Upton was by instinct anti-establishment in an e

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Teachers as Meaning Makers in Empathetic Reading Sessions: Toward More Emotional and Holistic Literature Pedagogy

Purpose: This study explores interactive poetry therapy as a method for empathetic reading in holistic, emotional literature education.Design: Five experienced teachers participated in a descriptive case study by attending interactive empathetic reading sessions during in-service education.The participants, inspired by an extract from a novel, wrot

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