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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Irish Literature |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Irish Literature | Code | 613G03046 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction: The origins. | History and culture of Ireland: a general overview Early Irish Medieval Poetry. Ireland, myth and identity. The Amergin Poems (Amergin Invocation) Pángur Ban (The poet and the cat) The medieval and mythical world reflected in the contemporary poets |
| 1.-The 19th century. The Great Famine. | 1.1 The Famine Poems. (Source: The Hungry Voice) 1.2. The Coffin Ship 1.3 O'Connor's: The Star of the Sea. |
| 2.-Early 20th Century. Irish Literary Revival. The Easter Rising. The Declaration of Independence. The Civil War. | 2.1 The Irish Literary Revival. Text: The Aran Islands and Connemara (Synge) (Excerpts) / Kerry and Wicklow. 2.2. Yeats. Text. Mythologies (excerpts) 2.3 Drama as the foundation of Irish identity. The Irish National Theatre. Lady Gregory and Yeats The Abbey Theatre John Millington Synge (Text: The Playboy of the Western World) Excerpts. / 'Riders to the Sea' (excerpts) Sean O’Casey: 'Juno and the Paycock' (Full text) 2.4. James Joyce. (Text: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man. Excerpts). 'Ulysses' 2.5. Poetry. Patrick Kavanagh. Austin Clarke. |
| 3.-The Second Half of the 20th Century and The 21st Century | 3.1. Drama: Brian Friel (Text. 'Dancing at Lughnasa') (Film and Excerpts) John B. Keane (excerpts) Martin MacDonough (excerpts) 3.2 Poetry: John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Murphy, Paul Durcan Eavan Boland, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paddy Bushe, Lorna Shaughnessy, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Martin Higgins, Pearse Hutchinson, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Donnell, Leanne O’Sullivan 3.3. Seamus Heaney and his relevance in Irish literature 3.4. Novels and short stories: (students will choose one of the following authors) Frank O’Connor Flann O’Brian MacGahern Roddy Doyle Colm Tóibín John Banville Joseph O'Connor Sebastian Barry Eimear McBride Mike McCormack |
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