The Talking Derry Girls are in a book! And not just any old book but an academic one about teaching history in America. Of course it’s not just us - Derry Girls and The Cranberries are in there too, in the same chapter. Pauline and Jeanie muse on this fact, and wonder if academic stalking is OK in the name of research. And if they could now, like Lisa McGee get an honorary degree! Maybe a lecture tour across the states. Pauline talks to Dr Starlynn Nance - Professor of Education at the university of Central Missouri. Starlynn became an instant fan of Derry Girls and could see the potential in using the TV programme to teach hard history!

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Dr Starlynn Nance’s book - Hollywood or History - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-History-Starlynn-R-Nance-ebook/dp/B0B21T6T3W

An inquiry-based strategy for using television shows to teach issue-centred curriculum. It was published in 2022.

https://www.ucmo.edu/academics/programs/majors/coe/educational-foundations-and-literacy/educational-foundations/secondary-education-bse-social-studies/index.php

University of Central Missouri https://www.ucmo.edu/

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Radden_Keefe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(book)

An inquiry-based strategy for using television shows to teach issue-centred curriculum. It was published in 2022.

Zombie by The Cranberries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

Lyra McKee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra_McKee

Easter Rising 1916 - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/what-was-the-easter-rising

Episodes of Talking Derry Girls about Blue Lights

Ep66 and Ep67