These webpages supply a copy of the Module Handbook, the Continuous Assessment Questions and Teaching Materials relating to the course. In all instances, the information and quotations used in lectures on the writers is available on the corresponding author files at RICORSO [online] - and you are advised to go and locate the pages on each author in the AZ-Author folder their for study and revision. All regions of the present website can be reached from the navigation frame on the left-hand side of this contents page.

In some cases, I have supplied notes on writers in the form of freely written remarks about the assigned texts and the authors. These remarks are intended as prompts to your own response rather than dogmatic view of any kind—i.e., not to be reproduced in examinations. I have, however, made some effort to relate those comments to the kind of thinking that has gone into the formulation of the Continuous Assessment Essay Questions and the Sessional Examination Questions.

If you want to know a little more about that thinking, this is obviously the place to look! Nonetheless, it should be recognised that this is a Third Year Module and, as such, an occasion when a good deal of independent critical thought is encouraged and expected. A well-made critical argument is infinitely preferable to the careless expression of any view with which I happen to agree—although a combination of the two might make an irresistable appeal (Joking!)

Make no mistake, I look forward to seeing the fruits of your own research in essays and examinations. What’s more, with the permission of the students concerned, I hope to place the better essays on this website for the benefit of other students, in the present session and the future. Aside from that, virtually all the material quoted from authors or from critics will be copied to the website providing adequate bibliographical notations have been supplied. (Imagine my disappointment if this information is deficient or - even worse - erroneous.)

Please point out any errors or deficiencies on these pages or in the EIRData Website that you notice. I undertake to remedy them as soon as I possible can. Although I keenly believe in the use of Internet as an aid to learning - both on campus and remote from it - these pages are supplementary to the ENG507C2 teaching programme and not designed to play an essential part in it. Students who cannot access them should not be disadvantaged.

I hope that you have enjoyed the Module and come to like even Irish literature better than before. Please be aware that there is a thriving MA Diploma Programme in Irish Literature in English at the University of Ulster and that many students proceed directly from Third Year to this programme. The people to contact if you want more information are Dr Elmer Andrews and Dr Anne McCartney. It would be very nice indeed to meet you in the classroom again and to share further in the study of our literature.