This page collects all of the posts created by the Headmaster of Rossall School. These are reflections on a very wide range of topics related to education, history, and ethics.
In Merrion Square, the languid figure of Oscar Wilde slouches on a quartz-like rock hewn from the Wicklow Mountains. Created in 1997, it constitutes a belated tribute to one of...Read More
So Mark Selby is the new world champion! I have always enjoyed snooker although I could never understand why my grandmother was so absorbed in a game that she watched...Read More
It was a rainy morning in the Spring of 1984. Raindrops slid lazily down the panes of the windows in the prefab classroom of my primary school. The baby thrush...Read More
Saturday evening walk with the girls Leadership of a school community requires a good deal of strategic planning. During the last year, we have all had to respond swiftly to...Read More
It is almost a century ago that the infant Prince Philip was smuggled out of Corfu in a fruit box, aboard the British naval vessel HMS Calypso. Like so many...Read More
