Irish Literature - Overview of the course by Chrisy Dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview en-us 2017-09-26 09:37:31 UTC 2023-04-07 16:06:22 UTC hello@padlet.com What will I read? chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153399 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


]]> 2017-09-26 09:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153399 What will I learn? chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153504 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.]]> 2017-09-26 09:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153504 Do I have to buy all of the novels? chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153709
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. ]]> 2017-09-26 09:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153709 Week One chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153808 2017-09-26 09:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153808 Week Two chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153920 2017-09-26 09:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191153920 Week Three chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154025 2017-09-26 09:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154025 Week Four chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154136 2017-09-26 09:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154136 Week 5 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154265 2017-09-26 09:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154265 The Last September chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154299 2017-09-26 09:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154299 Week Six chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154350 2017-09-26 09:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154350 Week Seven chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154432 2017-09-26 09:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154432 Week Eight chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154530 2017-09-26 09:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154530 Week Nine chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154658 2017-09-26 09:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191154658 Sterne Reading chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191155599 2017-09-26 09:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191155599 Swift reading chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191174923 2017-09-26 11:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191174923 Conla and the Fairy Maiden chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175333 2017-09-26 11:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175333 W. B. Yeats chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175696 2017-09-26 11:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175696 The the Nightingale and the Rose chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175926 2017-09-26 11:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191175926 The Boarding House chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176210 2017-09-26 11:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176210 Counterparts chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176396 2017-09-26 11:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176396 The Playboy of the Western World chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176650 2017-09-26 11:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191176650 The Day We Got Our Own Back chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177180 2017-09-26 11:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177180 Tarry Flynn chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177527 2017-09-26 11:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177527 Poetry Seamus Heaney chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177738 2017-09-26 11:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177738 The Lonely Passion of Judith Herne chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177916 2017-09-26 11:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191177916 Krapps Last Tape chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178365 2017-09-26 11:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178365 Good Behaviour chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178581 2017-09-26 11:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178581 The Drunkard chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178860 2017-09-26 11:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191178860 Paddy Clarke chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179274 2017-09-26 11:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179274 Dirty Little Fishes chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179580 2017-09-26 11:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179580 The Story of Lucy Gault chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179752 2017-09-26 11:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191179752 How to Learn Irish in Seventeen Steps chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191180645 2017-09-26 11:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191180645 Night of the Quicken chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191181049 2017-09-26 11:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191181049 City city of Bohane chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191181340 2017-09-26 11:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191181340 What are the learning outcomes of the course? chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Irish_Literature_Overview/wish/191296629 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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