Irish Writing To Modernism

AY2016/2017 Semester 2

Irish Writing: 1800 to Modernism provides an introduction to the history and remarkably rich literary tradition of Ireland in the critical period from 1800 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. In addition to the most prominent literary achievements of the period, a number of different genres and will be studied in detail. Irish novels, poetry, plays, concerned with the 'state of the nation' ? Canonical Irish texts of the era ? Material on critical approaches to Irish writing ? Historical context- detailed information on the main developments of Irish history generally and of the period specifically