Teachers Inspire Ireland: Recent Episodes
Teachers Inspire Ireland 2021
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
We want to hear your personal inspiring stories of that teacher who inspired your imagination, passion, creativity, compassion or courage.
Stories can be submitted through the teachersinspire.ie website.
Launching October 2021.
Full details https://www.teachersinspire.ie
For the final episode of this series the podcast comes to you from DCU, the home of Teachers Inspire.
A special event was held there for the four teachers who are our Teachers Inspire awardees for this year at which Louise presented them with their award.
The teachers are Gemma Maher from County Dublin, Joe McAndrew from County Mayo, Jennifer Hutton from County Carlow and Ruairi Farrell from County Wicklow. Gemma and Jennifer were nominated by a parent while Joe and Ruairi were nominated by a former student. For this episode they tell Louise what it means to them to have been nominated and the positive impact the awards have.
The Teachers Inspire Ireland initiative is organised and run by Dublin City University. Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
Our curator is the author Louise O’Neill has been going through the uplifting submissions over the last few months and we are delighted to say that Louise announces on the podcast the four inspirational awardees for 2021.
Curator Louise O’Neill said, “we received hundreds of entries for the Teachers Inspire initiative and if there was any recurring theme, it was thepower of teachers to encourage their students to believe in themselves, and how those young people carried that message throughout their entire lives.”
The four Awardees are Claire Duffy, from Skerries Community College, nominated by Rob O’Hanrahan, Una Smith from Virginia College, nominated by Shauna Marie Sheridan, Donna Fitzgerald from St Joseph’s Secondary School, Tulla, nominated by Conor Gorey and Liz Kett, Grennan College, Thomastown who was nominated by Gerard Kelly.
Prof Daire Keogh, President of Dublin City University said “The response to the second year of the Teachers Inspire initiative has been phenomenal. Once again, we have received extraordinary testimonies from people across the country, who have spoken about the hugely positive influence teachers have had on their lives and on the life of communities. I want to congratulate the four worthy recipients of this honour, who are representative of the excellence, passion, and dedication of so many of Ireland’s teachers.”
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This Teachers Inspire Ireland initiative is brought to you by DCU. Over the last month our curator Lisa O’Neill has been sharing a selection of your story submissions celebrating those inspiring teachers that made a positive impact on your lives.
Today we will first hear from RTE’s Rachel English talk about her most inspiring teacher. Then Louise will share read three more submissions from this year.
Our curator Louise O’Neill and our Fergal O’Keeffe have loved reading your entries over the last few weeks. We look forward to sharing the shortlisted entries in January.
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Louise O’Neill chats on the podcast today about Adele who picked her English teacher this week as the most inspirational person on her Audience with Adele show. Emma Thompson asked Adele who her childhood inspiration was growing up and she said it was her Year 8 English teacher, Miss McDonald: “She was so cool. She got me really interested in literature. We knew she cared about us.”
Louise also shares two inspirational story submissions from this year, and they are both French teachers.For Joanne O’Donnell her French teacher, Orla Finnucane, in Salesian Secondary College in Limerick, “opened up a whole new world for me- a world involving the beautiful French language and France - a country I would grow to love in years to come”. Asked what she had learnt by her teacher that has stayed with her, she said, “to look beyond the confines of your locality and embrace foreign cultures and languages.”
The next inspiring story is from Elaine Murray who chose her French teacher Brid Fox in the Sacred Heart Secondary School in Drogheda in County Louth. At 17 and in her Leaving Cert year, Elaine Murray thought her dream of playing football in America was about to become reality. She had represented Ireland at under 15 and under 17. “Anybody that knew me knew that my only dream was to play football in America and be a professional,” she said from her now home in Auckland, New Zealand. After a career changing ACL injury, Elaine was encouraged and helped by her French teacher, Brid Fox, who also coached her in the school soccer team and this guidance had a huge impact on her life.
This Teachers Inspire Ireland initiative is brought to you by DCU. Over the last month we have been receiving lots of uplifting story submissions from you celebrating those inspiring teachers that made a positive impact on your lives. Our curator the best selling author Louise O’Neill shares more inspirational stories.
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This Teachers Inspire Ireland initiative is brought to you by DCU. Over the last month we have been receiving lots of uplifting story submissions from you celebrating those inspiring teachers that made a positive impact on your lives. Our curator the best selling author Louise O’Neill shares more inspirational stories.
I’d ask that you follow or subscribe to the podcast on your favourite platform to be the first to get a new episode every Thursday. We look forward to chatting to you again next week.
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This Teachers Inspire Ireland initiative is brought to you by DCU. Over the last month we have been receiving lots of uplifting story submissions from you celebrating those inspiring teachers that made a positive impact on your lives.
We have a special episode today with the debut author Louise Nealon telling us about her inspiring teacher. Louise Nealon released her debut novel Snowflake this year to both critical and commercial acclaim going straight to No.1 in the bestseller charts with the critics calling Louise a voice for her generation. I talked to Louise about her English teacher who inspired her to follow her dream to become a writer.
Our curator Louise O’Neill will be back next Thursday to share more inspirational stories from you about those teachers that influenced you the most and made a difference in your life.
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Teachers Inspire Ireland is an initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise those teachers that made a difference for the better in your life. To give you an example of the types of stories we are looking for we hear today from former Irish rugby player and entrepreneur Jamie Heaslip about his most inspiring teacher.
Our curator the author Louise O’Neill also reads a selection of your submissions from this year. For the eligibility rules and details on how stories can be submitted check our website at https://www.teachersinspire.ie. A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions on the 5th of November.
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Teachers Inspire Ireland is an initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise those teachers that made a difference for the better in your life. To give you an example of the types of stories we are looking for we hear today from Andrea Corr and Eithne Shorthall about their inspiring teachers.
Our curator the author Louise O’Neill also reads a selection of your submissions from this year. Louise looks forward to reading your submissions and sharing your inspiring stories every Thursday. For the eligibility rules and details on how stories can be submitted check our website at https://www.teachersinspire.ie
A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions on the 5th of November.
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Our curator the author Louise O’Neill reads a selection of submissions from this year. We also hear from the GAA referee and primary school teacher David Gough about his inspirational teacher and finally we hear from Caitriona Ni Cassaithe who nominated the shortlisted teacher Nora Duffy in 2019.
Over the next few weeks Louise looks forward to reading your submissions and sharing your inspiring stories every Thursday.
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
For the eligibility rules and details on how stories can be submitted check our website at https://www.teachersinspire.ie
A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions on the 5th of November.
We ask you to follow this podcast so you are the first to get every episode every Thursday.
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Twitter @TeachersInspIE
Facebook @teachersinspireireland
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The Teachers Inspire Ireland Podcast is curated by the acclaimed Irish author Louise O’Neill. In this episode Louise reads an inspiring 2019 shortlisted story about Limerick based teacher Sinead O'Mahony who teaches at the Mid-West School for the Deaf in Limerick. We hope this will inspire you to send in your submissions about that teacher that had a positive impact on your life.
Over the next few weeks Louise looks forward to reading your submissions and sharing your inspiring stories every Thursday.
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
For the eligibility rules and details on how stories can be submitted check our website at https://www.teachersinspire.ie
A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions on the 5th of November.
We ask you to follow this podcast so you are the first to get every episode every Thursday.
Follow us on social media for the latest news
Twitter @TeachersInspIE
Facebook @teachersinspireireland
Instagram @teachersinspireireland
#TEACHERSINSPIRE2021
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The Teachers Inspire Ireland Podcast is hosted by the acclaimed Irish author Louise O’Neill who has written many bestselling and award-winning books including Asking for it and After the Silence.
Over the next few weeks Louise looks forward to reading your submissions and sharing your inspiring stories every Thursday.
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
We want to hear your personal inspiring stories of that teacher who inspired your imagination, passion, creativity, compassion or courage.
Stories can be submitted through https://www.teachersinspire.ie
A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions in November.
We ask you to follow this podcast so you are the first to get every episode every Thursday.
Follow us on social media for the latest news
Twitter @TeachersInspIE
Facebook @teachersinspireireland
Instagram @teachersinspireireland
#TEACHERSINSPIRE2021
TEACHERSINSPIREIRL
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We are delighted to announce that acclaimed Irish author Louise O’Neill will host the new Teachers Inspire Ireland Podcast every Thursday from the 7th of October until December.
So what is the Teachers Inspire Initiative?
Teachers Inspire is an Ireland-wide initiative brought to you by DCU that seeks to celebrate teachers and to recognise the transformative role they play in our lives and in our communities.
We want to hear your personal inspiring stories of that teacher who inspired your imagination, passion, creativity, compassion or courage.
Stories can be submitted through the https://www.teachersinspire.ie/ website.
We look forward to sharing your inspirational submissions every Thursday.
A shortlist of compelling stories will be chosen by a panel after the closing of submissions in November.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.