St Columb’s College English Department

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/commun…

Congratulations to our published poets from Year 8, 9 & 10 who took part in the Foyle Schools Poetry Competition! 📖👏🏻 We are very proud of you! @mor_rath @WSKidsClub @LittleAcornsBks @GuildhallPress @ColmcillePress

Fantastic day at @mor_rath celebrating #WorldPoetryDay in style at the Foyle Schools Poetry award ceremony! 🥇 We are so proud of our #CollegeBoys ✍🏻 @GuildhallPress @ColmcillePress @LittleAcornsBks @WSKidsClub

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!

When @ColumbCollege goes to @UlsterUni 👏🏻📖 Thanks to @LeonaONeill1 for facilitating this fantastic experience for our budding journalists! 📰 Our Year 12 #CollegeBoys had the best day experiencing all that @UlsterJournos has to offer!

Aedan Kelly 10F reciting some poetry from our alumnus Seamus Heaney during our Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations today! ☘️

Some of our Year 8 students during #WorldBookDay last week! 📚 We spent the week reading from our Book Buzz books!

@StColumbsEng @stephenfry This is so lovely! 🧡

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 beautiful Spring Morning in our beautiful Memorial Garden 🌼🙏

@StColumbsEng @BrianFriel @watersidetheatr @absolutelywrite @IdreamofNarnia @KMcCaughrain @dcsdcouncil @ArtsCouncilNI @derryjournal Stunning sculptures in the reception area of #StColumbsCollege #Derry of writers #SeamusHeaney & #BrianFriel past alumni 🎓📚💚

We are so proud of our @ColumbCollege budding writers. ✍🏻 Such a great event to finish off the week!

We had the best time welcoming these amazing authors, @watersidetheatr and @LittleAcornsBks to our school! 👏🏻📖

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

The EA Post-Primary Admissions Portal is now open. Go online and make your application today. Become a #College Boy

A fantastic reading lesson today with Year 8 pupils. Not a peep out of them! 📖 #CollegeBoys

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.