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Are you a teacher or a librarian? Our Teachers' Pack and online resources will help you create a class project on Ireland! We can also welcome you on site with your students.
Share these major themes of Irish history and culture with your students!
You can join the Médiathèque to borrow the Teacher's Pack (+ deposit: €50)
Loan for 1 to 2 months
For teachers in French junior and high schools, this offer is accessible through Adage, to use the collective section of Pass Culture.
Are you looking for a temporary exhibition to show in your cultural or educational programme?
Have a look at what we offer and contact us for more information:
Marion Mossu, Libraries and archives officer - mmossu@centreculturelirlandais.com or 01 58 52 10 83 / 30
Online exhibitions
The online exhibitions, made to fit high school and university curriculum, allow you to teach historical and cultural themes through a number of online resources: pictures, archive recordings, dramatisations, radio podcasts...
Learn about essential historical and literary events - the Irish rebellion during the Year of the French in 1798, the Irish independence in 1922, and the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses that same year -
and about the rich history of the Irish language.
You can also discover the history of the famous author Brendan Behan, the history of Irish language, and 120 years of Franco-Irish rugby on the occasion of the Rugby World Cup!
Share these major themes of Irish history and culture with your students!
Teachers' Pack
The Teachers’ Pack is a selection of items available to lend to schools, associations and school librarians. It focuses on Ireland and its culture and can be borrowed in the context of an educational project.
Its contents include numerous resources in French and in English on a variety of themes: history and civilisation (St Patrick…), literature (Oscar Wilde and contemporary writers), visual arts (Francis Bacon…), cinema (Bloody Sunday…), music... These can be adapted for all age groups.
New! The Teachers’ Pack for younger children includes a range of documents and activities for children from pre-primary to primary school: illustrated stories, books to learn about Ireland and learn English, songs and nursery rhymes in English and Irish, animated film...
Loan for 1 to 2 months
The pack must be borrowed from and returned to the Médiathèque: 5 rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris
Tours and educational activities
The libraries and archives staff can welcome classes for guided tours to discover the CCI, on appointment.For teachers in French junior and high schools, this offer is accessible through Adage, to use the collective section of Pass Culture.
- Educational activities with the Médiathèque's collection, which can be tailor made to fit the class project
- Tour of the CCI and its activities
- History of the building
- Contemporary art exhibitions
Exhibition on loan: L'Irlande des Poètes
The CCI lends this exhibition to support projects promoting Ireland and its culture throughout France. L'Irlande des Poètes was created in association with éditions MUSEO and the Irish Embassy in France.
The exhibition is composed of 20 pannels presenting landscape photographs and poems in the original language (English or Irish) and their French translation: William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus
Heaney, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill…
A beautiful tribute in words and images to a country and its people of poets.
