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Sat 05 May 2009To Sir with Love
INTERVIEW A love of teaching and of literature go hand in hand for Niall MacMonagle, whose latest book is a hugely entertaining compendium designed to get 15-year-olds reading – but sure to engage everyone else, too.
GRAINNE FALLERmeets an exceptional teacher
GRAHAM WALKER WAS just four hours out of hospital when he put pen to paper. The 26-year-old had been brutally stabbed in the chest and left for dead a fortnight earlier. He was living in England and hadn’t yet told his parents about the ordeal, so he was writing a letter to his old English teacher instead.
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