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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...English as “All Hallows Day”, and thus the eve is Halloween. It is quite plausible that there was already a seasonal festival of some sort at this date and that some of the features of this festival were transferred to Halloween. The word calan is borrowed from the Latin calends, meaning “the first day of the month”, while gaeaf means “winter”. A common claim...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...English and German at Trinity College, where she attended a creative writing group with Michael Longley. She has, to date, published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Found Architecture, Selected Poems, was...
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...English-speaking children might occasionally say ‘that go there’ instead of the adult ‘that goes there’. In Dutch ‘Mama ijs eten’ (Mama ice-cream eat) instead of ‘Mama eet ijs’ (Mama eat ice-cream); or in Spanish ‘Jugar al fútbol’ ((He) play football) instead of Juega al fútbol ((He) plays football). There is something that unites these children in...
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Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...worked with three regional further education colleges, community partners including Unison and WEA as well as Dangoor Education, Reed Recruitment and Impetus to help people develop their skills in English and maths through access to free online and for-fee college-based, blended learning approaches. You can access these courses below: [Logo for Dangoor Education]...
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Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...English and Arabic, a sign language interpreter was hired for three of the interviews and, due to my own hearing loss, assistance was needed with transcribing the interviews. I even made a video in Auslan (Australian sign language) to recruit participants and this proved to be a successful way of approaching and connecting with these women. You can view the video here....
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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...English literature. Likewise, the adjective ‘Orwellian’ (first used by the novelist Mary McCarthy in 1950) has now passed into the English language. Few people who have read Nineteen Eighty-Four ever forget it. Before going on to study Nineteen Eighty-Four in more depth, you will first explore more about Orwell himself – and the political experiences which informed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...English law has dealt with this issue and how future laws may also be influenced by it...Human rights and law: 3.2 What is the European Convention on Human Rights? - In the aftermath of the Second World War there were public disclosures of huge numbers of cases of brutal, inhuman and tyrannical treatment of people, frequently within the civilian populations of occupied...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...English, Scottish, African-American, and possibly Cherokee traditions, creating a genre that is now called old time, old timey, hillbilly, or Appalachian music’ (Moloney, 2006, p. 282). Examples of Appalachian music and its Scots -Irish roots are available here. [Photograph: The Bog-Trotters, an American traditional Appalachian folk band, perform ‘Hop up my Ladies’,...
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