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# Soundings

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17 sounds that will make all 90s Irish kids weep with nostalgia

We’ve got em all.

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Jun 10th 2016, 9:30 PM

Meet the people making poetry cool again in Ireland

Lingo Festival takes place in Dublin this weekend.

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Oct 16th 2014, 7:45 AM

8 schoolbook traditions future kids may never understand

Come back Peig. All is forgiven.

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Aug 24th 2013, 9:30 AM

Get your Soundings out… it’s a secondary school English test

Do you know your sonnets from your soliloquies?

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Dec 2nd 2012, 9:15 AM

Hey smartypants! Here's your chance to know something that the country's 55,000 Leaving Cert students probably don't

Nine things you (probably) didn’t know about the Leaving Cert.

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