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 1. An introduction to twentieth-century Irish
writing IS123
3.00-4.00pm Monday & 12.00-1.00pm Thursday Semester 1
24 x 1 hour lectures
This course will provide an overview of Irish writing in Irish and in
English from the literary and cultural revivals of late nineteenth-century
Ireland to the present. It will introduce the work of some of the most
outstanding modern writers in both languages, with a particular
emphasis on the ways in which issues such as gender, nationalism,
sexuality, politics, religion and social class are represented in literature.
1. To provide a survey of Irish writing in Irish and in English from
1892 to the present.
2. To critically examine the work of the most significant writers in
modern and contemporary Ireland.
3. To assess the role of the writer in modern Irish society, and explore
connections between the dual language traditions of writing on the
island of Ireland.
Four writing assignments, the first two (500 words each) to be
completed by Week 6, the second two (1000 words each) by Week 12.
Patrick Crotty, ed., Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Belfast:
Blackstaff Press, 2003 [1996])
Harrington, John, ed., Modern Irish Drama (London: Norton, 1991)
Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-85
(London: Harper, 2004 2nd ed. [1981])
Core texts will be supplemented with critical readings and a course
handbook.