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Welcome session for students 2017-18 padlet copy

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What are the learning outcomes of the course?

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What are the learning outcomes of the course?

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1)  Define what we mean by 'Irish Writers' and 'Irish Writing'.

2) Confidently discuss the Anglo-Irish traditions in the texts.

3) List three influences on Irish Writing - either historical, cultural or political.

4) Identify at least 3 different periods of Irish Writing

Plus one or two of your personal learning outcomes.

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To get the most out of the course, reading the full text will help.  However, we all have busy lives and you will be given a reader with extracts of the novels and copies of the shorter texts.

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From the dawn of Gaelic history to the present day, Ireland and Northern Ireland have produced a host of poets, writers, novelists and playwrights. Beginning with some Irish folk-tales, we will draw on some of the most talented authors as we discuss Ireland’s turbulent past.

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Week One

‘Connla and the Fairy Maiden’, extract from Sterne, Swift, Nymph

Week Two

Poetry by W. B. Yeats 'The Nightingale and the Rose' by Oscar Wilde.

Week Three

The Dubliners: ‘The Boarding House’and ‘Counterparts’ by James Joyce and extract from J. M. Synge’sThe Playboy of the Western World

Week Four

Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September & ‘The Day We Got Our Own Back’ from The Springs of Affection: Stories by Maeve Brennan

Week Five

Patrick Kavanagh - Tarry Flynn and poems by Seamus Heaney

Week Six

Brian Moor – The Lonely Passion of Judith Herne & Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape

Week Seven

Molly Keane – Good Behaviour & ‘The Drunkard’ by Frank O’Connor

Week Eight

Roddy Doyle -  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha & ‘Dirty Little Fishes’ by Jess Kidd

Week Nine

William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault & ‘How to Learn Irish in Seventeen Steps’, by Roisín O’Donnell

Week Ten

Claire Keegan – ‘Night of the Quicken’ a short story from Walk the Blue Fields

Dirty Little Fishes’ by Jess Kidd