Secondary School text books - throw your mind back if you will...

[LookItsMeAgain]

I was browsing the Book Depository (as it's closing down soon) and came across an old secondary school book that they were selling - Soundings - which was the poetry book we used for the Leaving Cert.

I then saw that Exploring English was also available, but only Exploring English 1. It got me thinking - was there an Exploring English 2 and 3 in the series? Does anyone have an EE2 or EE3 that they might want to offload and get rid of as I'd love to get a copy of either or both.

I just can't remember how the series of Inter Cert books was compiled.

Yes, there was Exploring English I, 2 and 3. One was poetry, one was prose and one was short stories.

Thank you @Taytocrisps - I couldn't remember how they were split.

I'd love to get a copy of each of the books for nostalgia's sake.

I have a copy of Soundings, a reprint given as a present. It's amazing how many poems are in my long term memory. I did my LC in 1987.
I was listening to Liveline today (driving with my very elderly dad in the car!!!) and they were talking about Irish being compulsory after Norma's comments this week. I'm so glad we learned all those poems and Shakespeare and Dickens etc. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I'm so glad to have studied them. Likewise Peig and Tóraíocht and Stair na Teanga etc. I'd love to be back learning them again. I didn't appreciate how interesting they were then- although I did love learning about logainmeacha even if I didn't let anyone see me enjoying it ;)

I remember Soundings and would love to get a copy of it. I bought Exploring English Three last year, the short stories, and I love dipping in and out of it. It's amazing how much I remember it, but it's also strange how you react differently to a story as an adult. The change of perspective.

I liked English and Irish in school, but would have kept it quiet as well. My level of Irish wasn't brilliant, but I liked reading. Scothscéalta was on the Irish course then (LC 1992). They were short stories in Irish. Stair na Teanga was interesting and I must be in the minority to say I didn't mind Peig's olagóning. I felt sorry for the créatúr bocht. She had a hard life. I've always been a bookworm :)