Classic Gold Hits!
Yes, that’s right, Boomers, time to listen to (and watch) more Classics Gold Hits! Our Third Years took First Prize in the Junior Cycle category and two Fifth Year groups tied for Third in the Leaving Certificate category at the Young Classicists Symposium at UCD for their classics-themed videos. And the phalanx of 70+ supporters […]
MoreDarius the…
…Third! Yes, Darius III (not II !) was the particular ”King of Kings’ of the Persian Empire who lost to Alexander the Great at Issos, Gaugamela etc… and tt was one of the few questions, at The Ides of March (and April) Classics Teachers Table Quiz last week, that our leading ‘Olympian’ team of Isobel […]
MoreAnother Classics Coup!
They came. They spoke. They conquered! St. Conleth’s rocked the rostrum at the Classics Speech Competition at Trinity College, taking two of only four prizes on offer, with Milo Smith winning First Prize in LC and Amelie Timmins taking Second Prize in JC. Milo came to bury Caesar but ended up praising him, channelling Shakespeare’s […]
MoreBusiness as Usual…
Yes, the Mocks are in full swing, but life goes on as normal for non-exam years: Fifth Years practice their oral Irish; Second Years learn how to devise a PE programme; and First Years put on plays in Classics!
MoreYoung Classicists: The Golden Age!
When we received the list of finalists for the Young Classicist Awards we were thrilled and immensely proud, as it was chock full of Conlethian Young Classicists! And that pride reached hubristic proportions, when our Classics Kids army, 91 hoplites strong, descended upon UCD and carried off the bling, with Fifth Years winning the Senior […]
MorePliny the…
…Younger! Yes, Pliny the Elder, the Commodore of the Imperial Roman Fleet based at Misenum, was the famous eye witness to the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, but it was Pliny the Younger who actually wrote the letters that preserved that memory, and was the answer to question XXXIV in the Ides of March (and […]
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