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Champing at the voice(s)

By Anton Elloway on Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Jacques Louis David: Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Few concepts are invoked more confidently in contemporary universities than the student voice. Yet the way the term is framed – and especially the language of championing it – obscures the limits of student judgement while betraying a deeper unease with educational authority. In higher education, what is needed is not greater responsiveness, but the …

poetry

Poem: Lightenings (from Squarings)

By Anton Elloway on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Picture of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney at the University College Dublin, February 11, 2009.

One of my favourite poems by Seamus Heaney is this one from his 1991 collection Seeing Things. This poem is the eighth in the first section (Lightenings) of Part 2 (Squarings). viii The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the …

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Month: December 2025

Champing at the voice(s)

Poem: Lightenings (from Squarings)

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