| Week |
Dates |
Titles |
Resources |
| 01 |
26th Sept.
19th Sept.
|
Introduction & Module Organisation Meeting
The Early Literature of Ireland: Oral and Written |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 02 |
3rd Oct.
6th Oct. |
W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore
Marie Heaney: Making It New |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 03 |
10th Oct.
13th Oct. |
Tales and Tellers: The Irish Seanachie
William Carleton: Traits and Stories |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 04 |
17th. Oct.
20th Oct.
|
Anglo-Irish Tradition: Swift, Sheridan and Wilde
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 05 |
24th Oct.
27th Oct. |
R. B. Sheridan: The Rivals
Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 06 |
30th Oct.
3rd Nov.
|
Irish Gothic and the Colonial Unconscious
Bram Stoker: Dracula |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 07 |
7th Nov.
9th Nov. |
Modern Irish Writers: Synge, Moore & Joyce
J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 08 |
|
Study Week
|
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| 09 |
21st Nov.
24th Nov. |
James Joyce: Modernising Irish Literature
James Joyce, Dubliners & A Portrait |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 10 |
29th Nov.
1st Dec. |
Revising the Revival: Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 11 |
5th Dec.
8th Dec. |
Telling Stories: Irish Autobiography
Frank McCourt: Angela’s Ashes |
Lecture |
Texts |
| 12 |
12th Dec.
15th Dec. |
The Short Story: An Irish Genre?
Questions & Questions (Revision Lecture) |
Lecture |
Texts |