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Irish Living Booklist – Poetry
We enjoy reading aloud a poem or two aloud together every day. I spent time looking for some Irish poetry books, and I wanted to share with you the ones that worked for my family...
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Mater Dei Irish History
Mater Dei Education is a new Irish curriculum provider. Mater Dei was “founded in 2020 to support homeschoolers in Ireland and elsewhere discover the rich classical tradition of teaching and learning from Ireland”. In 2021 Mater Dei released their Discover the Past Irish history curriculum. As they were new I could not see them before I purchased them. I only bought one of their history book sets, but it has been working well for us and I wanted to share about it. We are using the Charlotte Mason curriculum Alveary, which we are really happy with. It has a slot for American or Canadian history, and we just substituted the…
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Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
This is the second post in what will be a series of posts listing living books for Irish home educators with children of primary school age. Reading quality books is an important part of a Charlotte Mason education, whether snuggled on the couch reading aloud together or reading to themselves. I was looking for living books – high quality books, engagingly written with beautiful, realistic and accurate illustrations. I had difficulty locating living books set in Ireland and could not find a comprehensive list, so I am slowly creating such a list on this website to share with you. This post is focusing on books which give an overview of…
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Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
This is the first post in what will be a series of posts listing living books for Irish home educators with children in primary school. Reading quality books is an important part of a Charlotte Mason education, whether snuggled on the couch reading aloud together or reading to themselves. I had difficulty locating living books set in Ireland and could not find a comprehensive list, so I am slowly creating such a list on this website to share with you. Tom McCaughren wrote: “When my daughters were growing up I realised there were few books for young people written, set and published in Ireland so I decided to write some…
