School Director Charlie Boland M.A (English), PGCE in Education (1st Class Honours) has over 15 years’ experience in language teaching having taught in Sicily, Brazil, Spain and Ireland. Charlie taught for two years at Liceo Europeo in La Moraleja, Madrid. A full time secondary teacher, Charlie had 12 years’ experience in the position of Language School Director of Studies before opening Dunmore East English School in 2016.
Head Teacher Eliz O’Halloran is an English Language Tutor with 17 years’ experience teaching in Ireland and internationally. She has a BA (Hons) in European Business Studies with French and is TEFL qualified. She has taught in Argentina, Namibia and Switzerland as well as here in Ireland. She believes in an interactive, participative style of teaching in which the students are immersed in the language orally, aurally and visually. She is a mother of three children and is sensitive to the needs of young people who are away from home.
All of our teachers are university graduates qualified to teach English as a foreign language. All have international experience.