New Irish Poetry

A New Approach to Teaching English Poetry to EFL Students

Poetry like other literary genres exists to be enjoyed and appreciated. The difficult task facing any instructor is to develop this sense of appreciation and enjoyment in students who are not interested in poetry. For a long time, literature in general and poetry in particular, was purged from the teaching programmes on the ground that it made no contribution to learning a foreign language for ...

New sciences in a ‘new country’ – the Irish paradox

It has been argued that Ireland re-invented itself over the past quarter-century as the Celtic Tiger, with its open economy, modernising society, young population, flexible education, partnership politics, strident consumerism, and global cultural reach. In that re-invention, first technology, then increasingly, ‘research’, ‘science’ and ‘knowledge’ have been important themes. Where the public ...

Recent Writing of Lutz Rathenow: A New GDR Poetry?

Poetry Readings

Idiosynchromatic Poetry

For α, β, n ordinals α → (β, n) means that any graph on the ordinal α either contains an independent set of order-type β or a complete subgraph of order-type n. We only consider cases where n is a natural number, hence the naming. The partition relation α → (β, n) for α, β finite multiples of κ where κ = ω or κ is weakly compact is characterized by a finitary problem as is the same for α, β fin...