Irish Writing Romanticism To Modernism

You will study the course texts in great detail and in terms of their historical context. You will also gain a greater understanding of the literary eras involved through study of the set texts. The course provides an introduction to the history and remarkably rich literary tradition of Ireland in the critical period from the Romantic period to the birth of Modernism. The course will study how Irish culture reflected the different tensions and transformations of the period in Ireland and also how culture acted as a catalyst to political change.

Course content

Canonical Irish texts of the era

Irish novels, short stories, poetry, plays, concerned with the `state of the nation?

Material on critical approaches to Irish writing

Historical context ? detailed information on the main developments of Irish history generally and of the period specifically