School of Humanities
Discipline
Course Title
Irish Studies
BA CONNECT with Irish Studies
Module Coordinators
Module Title
Dr Louis de Paor & Dr Nessa Cronin
Lecture times
Teaching Format
Brief outline of
content
Learning Outcomes
Assessment Types
and Deadlines
Required Text
Writing Ireland 3. A sense of place: location and dislocation in
modern Irish writing
3-4pm and 5-6pm Wednesday, Semester 2
12 x 2 hour seminar
Are the concepts of space and place important in the construction of
identity? How has the sense of place shaped the Irish literary
imagination? This course will explore the sense of place as a defining
element in Irish culture through a close reading of selected texts in Irish
and in English. It will also look at the ways in which Irish writers in
both languages deal with the sense of displacement which is a
characteristic of the Irish experience in the twentieth century.
Students will have a clear understanding of the significance of place in
the formation of Irish identities and the extent to which the significance
of a historical and geographical sense of place is a formative element in
Irish literature.
Two 1500 word essays, the first to be completed by Week 7, the second
by Week 12.
Patrick Crotty, ed., Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Belfast:
Blackstaff Press, 2003 [1996])
Harrington, John, ed., Modern Irish Drama
William Trevor, ed., The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1989)
The above texts will be supplemented with critical readings and a
course handbook.