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Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
Patrick Freyne: 'For personal writing, people need to feel they're in safe hands - if you're too raw it can unsettle the reader'
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
'My great-aunt Chrissy left home at fourteen to go join a convent. That was in 1954'
This college student wrote and turned in an essay drunk, and regretted it deeply
Short Story: The Chamber Pot
The Ku Klux Klan in modern day America
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
Poll: Should more than just points be considered for entry to college courses?