The official Twitter account for the English Department of St Columb’s College. 🖋️📚 “We go to literature… to be forwarded within ourselves” - Seamus Heaney
Our wonderful young journalists from 9C with their certificates and press passes after completing the Irish News Young News Readers Project 2024. ✍🏻 📰 #CollegeBoys
We are taking part in the National Young Authors Fair UK! 🎉 Chances for awards for our amazing creative writers. ✍🏻 Use the link below 👇🏻 to register:
yaf.bribooks.com/uk/2024/com…
We loved spending #WorldPoetryDay celebrating our published poet, Chikondi Donal Phiri 8C, who came second place in the Foyle Schools Poetry Competition! 👏🏻👏🏻
Some of our Year 12 #CollegeBoys enjoying the astounding facilities at @UlsterJournos 🎥 Special thanks to Dr Colm Murphy, Dr Kate Byrne & Dr Frank Ferguson for giving our boys an invaluable insight into life at university!
On the run-up to #WorldBookDay2024 , our Year 8 students enjoyed some extra reading time with the fantastic @stephenfry reading alongside us on @audibleuk 🧹⚡️✨
A group of our Year 12 #CollegeBoys visited University of Ulster recently with Mr Horner and received a tour of the Law facilities. ⚖️ Thank you to Mr John Thompson for welcoming perhaps some future lawyers!
St Columb’s College would like to thank Mr John Thompson for hosting a selection of Year 12 students in Ulster University’s, Law Department at Magee Campus this morning. #UlsterUniversity
As if he had been poured in tar, he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep
the black river of himself.
The grain of his wrists is like bog oak, the ball of his heel
like a basalt egg.
His instep has shrunk cold as a swan’s foot or a wet swamp root.