Edith Eger

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School online is not without its glitches. The first was so genuinely traumatic that I think many of us blocked out the skills acquired when we blocked out the trauma. Photograph: iStock
The Secret Teacher: This is not the time to limit ourselves to online traditional school

Schools don’t have a monopoly on teaching and learning. We are surrounded by learning opportunities, some permanently available, others a more tempora(...)

Luke O'Neill, Nicola Sturgeon and Micheál Martin will take part in Thursday's Winter Nights festival.
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival day 5: Dara McAnulty, Gabriel Byrne and John King

The Irish Times Winter Nights festival – a series of stimulating and entertaining online talks and events, supported by Peugeot – concludes on Friday,(...)

Irish Times Winter Nights Festival 2021.
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Everything you need to know

Gabriel Byrne, Sonia O’Sullivan, Micheál Martin, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri, Dara McAnulty, Blindboy and more will appear at the online festival (...)

The Irish Times Winter Nights Festival takes place from Monday, January 25th to Friday, January 29th,
Irish Times Winter Nights Festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Gabriel Byrne, Dara Ó Briain and Edith Eger
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  • December 17, 2020, 15:30

The line-up for Winter Nights, a new Irish Times online festival taking place at the end of January, was announced on Thursday. Over five evenings fro(...)

Chairman: Ray D’Arcy. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell
Ray D’Arcy: ‘My dad was in the Army, had nine kids and drank a lot’

The RTÉ presenter, who is leaving his TV chatshow for a new programme with Zig and Zag, says his working-class roots make him crave security and fe(...)

‘We have to be clear that we want equality in the home – not homes where dominance prevails. This is the root of all violence’ Sharon O’Halloran said
Inequality in the home the ‘root’ of domestic violence, says expert

Inequality within the family home has to be addressed if domestic violence is to be tackled, a leading expert on the issue has warned. Sharon O’Hallo(...)

Edith Eger: ‘That’s what Auschwitz taught me: how can you find joy within you.’
‘Even in Auschwitz there were choices’: a survivor’s life

“How can I be useful to you?” asks Edith Eger, after we’ve done a bit of introductory phone chit-chat. This, I know from reading her new book The Choi(...)