6th Year Booklist 2021-2022

English

Books will serve for Fifth and Sixth Year

• Excellence in Texts 2022 Higher Level – includes Othello  (Educate.ie)
• Poetry Focus 2022 by Martin Kiernan and Frances Rocks (Gill and Macmillan)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel
• Language Lessons (Gill Education)
  (students may already have this text from Transition Year)
• Install Pocket Papers Application (contains past Leaving Cert papers)

Irish

Higher Level:

• Fiúntas Nua (Edco) (as 5th year)
• An Triail by Máiréad Ní Ghráda (An Gum)
  
• Exam Papers – Higher Level (Edco)
• A4 copy book

Ordinary Level

• Fiúntas Nua (Edco) (as 5th year)
• Exam Papers – Ordinary Level (Edco)
• A4 copy book

Maths

Higher Level

• Active Maths 4 – Book 1 and Activity Book – 2nd Edition by O. Murphy & C. Townsend (Folens)
• Past Leaving Cert Papers Higher Level 2020 (Edco)

Ordinary Level

• Active Maths 3 – 2nd Edition by O. Murphy & C. Townsend (Folens)
• Past Leaving Cert Papers Ordinary Level 2020 (Edco)

Higher and Ordinary Level

• Mathematical Tables – State Examinations Commission.
• Scientific Calculator
• A4 Project Maths squared paper copy book

Careers

•  Revise Wise, Start Your Career Journey Here by Brian Mooney (Edco)

French

• Mosaïque – 3rd edition 2015 (Edco)
• Bonne Chance, 2014 by Elizabeth Hayes-Lynn (Gill & Macmillan)
• Revise Wise French Leaving Cert Higher Level – latest edition (Edco) 
• Past Leaving Cert Papers (Edco)
• A4 copy book
• A4 hardback copy book
• Install Pocket Papers, WordReference and Duolingo Applications

Spanish

• Español en Acción (Folens) (as 5th year)
• Vamos a Escuchar 2 (Folens) (as 5th year)
• A4 copy books (x2)
• A5 copy books (x2)
• a4 display book (60-80pockets)
• Install Pocket Papers and WordReference Applications

Music (keep all books used in 5th year)

• Past Leaving Cert Music Exam Papers – Listening and Composition
• Notes – Full package (Higgins and Higgins) includes textbook and two composing workbooks(melody and harmony)
• Notes – Listening B workbook (Higgins and Higgins)
• A4 Manuscript Copy Book (Stave)

History

• Dictatorship & Democracy 1920-45 by Stephen Tonge (Edco) (as 5th year)
• The United States and the World 1945–1989 – 2nd Edition, by Máire De Buitléir & Stephen Tonge (Edco)
• Politics and Society in Northern Ireland by  M E Collins (Edco) (as 5th year)
• Sovereignty & Partition 1912-1949, M.E. Collins (Edco)
• A4 four ring binder with plastic sleeves
• Higher Level Examination Papers including 2021 (Edco)

Business

• Down to Business Leaving Certificate by Gavin Duffy (Folens 2020)
• Large Ring Binder Folder with Dividers and Plastic Sleeves.
• A4 refill pad
• A4 hardback copy

Economics

• Positive Economics by Hayes, Murray, O’Connor (Edco)  (as 5th year)

Art

• HB, 2B, 4B, 6B Pencils
• Black, white and sepia Conte pencils
• White rubber
• Sharpener
• Scissors
• Pritt Stick
• Pack of 12/24 oil pastels
• A2 card portfolio
• A4 sketch pad (x2)
• 12″ / 30mm steel ruler, 12 inches
• Masking tape
• 24 Watercolour pencils (Derwent or Faber Castell)
• Watercolour paint tablet
• Acrylic paint: Burnt Umber, Titanium White, Cadium Yellow,  Cadium Red, Ultramarine, Black. 
• Paint brushes – selection of synthetic brushes size: 2, 4, 6 and 8.

Art History

• New Appreciating Art, Visual Studies for the Leaving Cert by Aine Ní Chárthaigh and Aidan O Sullivan.
• A4 ring binder
• A4 refill for essay writing

Classical Studies

(as 5th and 6th Year)
N.B. those marked with an * are available as free photocopies from the teacher.

• The Odyssey – Homer
  (Trans. by E.V. Rieu; Revised by D.C.H. Rieu) 
  ISBN 9780140449112 Penguin Classics 
  
• The Aeneid – Virgil
  (Trans. by West) ISBN 9780140449327 Penguin Classics
• The Campaigns of Alexander
  by Arrian (Trans. by De Selincourt; Revised by J.R. Hamilton)
  ISBN 9780140442533 Penguin Classics
• * The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives
  by Plutarch (Intro. by G. T. Griffith; Trans. by Ian Scott-Kilvert )
  ISBN 9780141920368 Penguin Classics
• *The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
  (Trans. by Fagles; Intro. by Knox) 
  ISBN 9780140444254 Penguin Classics 
  
• *Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
  ( Trans. by Vellacott) ISBN 9780140441291 Penguin Classics
• * Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
  (Trans. by Vellacott) 
  ISBN 9780140441123 Penguin Classics
• *A Handbook of Greek Art & Architecture
  by G.M. Richter ISBN-0714824968 
  (Phaidon) (if available) 
  

Latin – Optional Extra-Curricular Class

(as 4th 5th and 6th Year)

• Wheelock’s Latin by Richard A. LaFleur 7 th Edition (Paperback or Hardback) ISBN: 9780061997228 (available through Amazon.co.UK)
• The Roman Empire by Colin Wells 2nd Edition (Harvard UP) 
  ISBN: 0674777700 (available through Amazon.co.UK)
• Roman Art and Architecture by Mortimer Wheeler (Thames and Hudson) ISBN: 0500200211(available through Amazon.co.UK)

L.C.V.P.

• LCVP Link Modules Making It Happen – 2nd Edition 2014 by Caroline McHale (Folens)
• Ring binder, dividers and polypockets

Geography

• Horizons Textbook Book 1 Tara Fitzharris, Second Edition (Folens) (as 5th year)
• Horizons Book 2 Tara Fitzharris, Second Edition (Folens)
• Geographical Investigation: Coastal by Sue Honan (Mentor)
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  EDCO Examination Papers incl 2019/20 paper.
• Large ring binder folder with dividers and plastic sleeves
• A4 Refill Pad with detachable sheets

Chemistry (as 5th year)

• Chemistry Live! – Textbook and Workbook Set by Declan Kennedy (Folens)
• Chemistry Student Lab Notebook (Folens)

Physics (as 5th year)

• Real World Physics Textbook and Workbook by Dan O’Regan (Folens)
• A4 hardback copy book with graph paper for experiments 
• A4 hardback homework copy
• Hard folder for holding notes

Biology (as 5th year)

• Bio by John Loughlin (Educate.ie)
• A4 hardback copy book experiments and notes
• Hard folder for holding notes