Our ESOL Summer Classes had a great visit to the RHA gallery, St Stephen’s Green and visited the Jeanie Johnston. Thanks to tutors Aileen and Anne for organising!
Book Club on Echoland by Joe Joyce
Our Book Club has just finished reading and discussing “Echoland” by Joe Joyce. Echoland is a spy thriller set in Dublin during World War Two. When it appears that Germany is winning the war, Germany’s next move is to target Britain and Ireland. The views on the war are divided in neutral Dublin. […]
Marsh’s Library Visit
In March 2017, our ESOL Level 3 group enjoyed a tour of Marsh’s Library on St Patrick’s Close. Marsh’s Library was the first public library in Ireland. The library contains over 25,000 books from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The group explored the shelves of the library and took some time to try out the […]
1916 … Celebrations in art R...
Monica Baird is pictured here with a montage of her aunt, Lily Kempson (centre-left), who took part in the 1916 Rising, along with Countess Marchievicz (top-right) and Eleanor Warbrook (bottom-right), a child victim of the Rising from Fumbally Lane in Blackpitts, Dublin 8. The art class, lead by tutor Helen O’Keeffe, created this wonderful […]
Failte Isteach at Warrenmount Centre
Warrenmount Community Education Centre is delighted to work with Failte Isteach to provide English conversation classes. We welcome learners from many different countries to take part in the volunteer supported English language conversation group. Thanks to all our volunteers who give their time! http://www.thirdageireland.ie/failte-isteach
Gardening Class October 2016
Warrenmount Centre’s gardening class has been busy planting over the last few weeks.
Do IT Profiler: Pilot
Background: For the past five years City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB) have been working with the UK company Do-IT Solutions to create a unique set of digital screening and profiling tools to enable their colleges, centres, schools and other education and training providers they fund to better meet the needs of learners. […]
Joins Fáilte Isteach
Fáilte Isteach is a community-based project involving predominantly older volunteers welcoming migrants through free conversational English classes. The project was established by Third Age in October 2006 in response to the observed daily difficulties that migrants were experiencing integrating into the local community through a poor understanding or lack of English. Following its success as […]
Another Quilling Project
We are working on a new quilling project to celebrate our 20th anniversary of Warrenmount Community Education and Development Centre. Our design is based around the word ‘Warrenmount – 1995 -2015’, which will be beautifully quilled and lavishly decorated with floral patterns. Some new techniques will be explored. We have been watching some exciting tutorials […]
Adult Learner Festival 2016
Below is the programme of the activities this year. We are delighted that Debora Nelli is back this year, ESOL learners will enjoy a workshop with her and her students from Western Washington University, USA. James Madigan and Cathy Scuffil will give a talk on the 1916 Easter Rising and people from Dublin 8. They will […]