At the end of September, 2011,a new "E-Lab" project strted on English Club TV, in which professional teachers of English from leading language schools help an international group of students improve their English.
Have fun learning or teaching English with the latest issue of Hot English magazine (the April issue, 123). Read about Kate Winslet and her fight to stay natural. Also, check out Titanic 3D, take our honesty quiz, learn about renewable energy, and travel to Ireland in our Ireland Special. Plus, all our standard sections, so you can really improve your English!
Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language: An Intercultural Perspective (Language and Globalization)Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived "in-between" two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's "own place" in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society.
Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.
An ex-con must save Northern Ireland from a violent cabal, before the nation is plunged into chaos Former IRA operative Martin Fallon has survived prison, the bottle, and a police pursuit that sent him running the length and breadth of Ireland. As Fallon turns forty years old, the IRA needs his help again, this time to break Patrick Rogan, the leader of IRA Ulster, out of prison before he is executed. But not all is as it seems. When a newly freed Rogan commits murder in the name of a ruthless IRA sect,
