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THE recent statement by Ireland’s minister for education and science, Mary Hanafin, that the Irish-only policy in infant classes in all-Irish schools is to be curtailed, has been disputed by those involved in Irish medium education. Most all-Irish schools do not want to teach English in infant classes even for 30 minutes a day. They believe that if the teacher speaks English to the children in the early years, it will weaken the status of Irish as the school language. NIGERIAN novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Orange Prize for Half of a Yellow Sun. Set during the 1960s Biafran civil war, the book tells the story of three characters: a poor houseboy, a glamorous woman and a shy Englishman. They are caught up in the conflict and have to run for their lives. The Orange is one of the literary world’s top awards given to the best book written in English by a woman in the past 12 months. The award had an international flavor in 2007 with authors shortlisted from Britain, China, India and the US. |  |
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