The courses accessible from this page represent the final state of those taught by me at the University of Ulster as listed below - as they stood at the end of the academic year 2006-07. All of the materials relating to authors and commentaries incorporated in these pages and more is available at RICORSO under the authors concerned - the wider Irish-studies website of which the Classroom section (as here) forms a part - [Go to Ricorso - online].
The latter is a browsable A-Z source of biography, bibliography, commentary, and notes on Irish writers of all periods with additional areas in the form of a collection of original texts and criticism likewise held in the RICORSO Library [online]. In this character, it is an especially useful tool for graduate and post-doctoral research representing broading the status of Irish studies in the decades before and after the end of the second millenium - i.e., 1996-2014 .. and then some).
The lecture materials and texts given here in Classroom are, however, exclusively adapted to the teaching mission associated with each course and are best approached in the learning-teaching context which they were originally designed to serve - in other words, as students gaining a first acquaintance with the subject-field rather than researchers pushing the borders of Irish literary studies wider and deeper, or mining it to the core.
Some lacuna in the teaching record will be met with in several places where a lecture was impromptu or the notes-record has not been retained. In such cases, pointers to the relevant pages in RICORSO have been substituted for specific classroom content. Details of student groups, identities and results have naturally been removed though certain pages dealing with administrative matters such as timetables and learning-teaching methods have been retained ‘for the record&#'146';. The original course names and codes have been retained for convenience and as a memorial to the classroom work undertaken and the results achieved in the period in question.
