Home Education in Dublin

Support for Irish families using the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to Home School

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  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!
      • Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible books
  • Mother’s Education
    • Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason
    • I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
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  • Start Here
  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!
      • Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible books
  • Mother’s Education
    • Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason
    • I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
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  • Contact

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  • Charlotte Mason Art Appreciation
    Irish Art

    Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style

    Charlotte Mason believed a child’s “education should furnish him with whole galleries of mental pictures, pictures by great artists old and new;––…–– in fact, every child should leave school with at least a couple of hundred pictures by great masters hanging permanently in the halls of his imagination, to say nothing of great buildings, sculpture, beauty of form and colour in things he sees. Perhaps we might secure at least a hundred lovely landscapes too,––sunsets, cloudscapes, starlight nights. At any rate he should go forth well furnished because imagination has the property of magical expansion, the more it holds the more it will hold. (Vol 6: Towards a Philosophy of Education…

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    I think the Hugh Lane Gallery is a great gallery to take children to in Dublin. I think it is especially good for your first visit to a gallery with children. It is much smaller than the National Gallery of Ireland, which makes it easier and less overwhelming. There are artworks by many famous international artists, ones that you will come across is you are using the Ambleside Online Art Schedule for example Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. There are also lots of interesting sculptures. There are paintings by well known Irish artists such as Harry Clarke, Paul Henry, Grace Henry, John Lavery, William…

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    Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke

    The first Irish artist that we studied using the Charlotte Mason method of Art Appreciation (more info on this method here) was Harry Clarke (1889 –1931) a stained-glass artist and book illustrator. This turned out to be a great first choice artist for us. The Eve of St Agnes at Hugh Lane Gallery I had seen his stained glass artwork The Eve of St Agnes at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. I would suggest this as one of the artworks to study by Harry Clarke: The Eve of St Agnes – Hugh Lane Gallery Unfortunately, the quality of the digital image is quite poor. This is a very detailed image, basically a…

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A little blog to bring awareness of the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to home education (home schooling) to Irish families by showing how my family use this style: how we supplement, substitute and adapt US curriculum; include Irish history and geography; information on books fitting this approach available in our libraries; local resources and the wonderful local field trips available.

I hope to come alongside you as a friend on this journey sharing what I have learnt and what others have shared with me over the last decade.  I hope to support you in enjoying this journey of discovery we are both on.

Wishing you a wonderful journey!  ~ Anna

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