Introduction to Irish Literature. A survey of great works of Irish literature from the Middle Ages to the present, with emphasis on the continuity of Irish tradition as well as on the shifting political and social contexts in which Irish literature has been produced. Modern Irish Literature. An important focus will be the distinctively Irish nature of these writers' materials, attitudes, and language. Detailed study of a major writer, such as James Joyce, or of a group of writers, such as the contemporary Ulster poets, who have created a literature of considerable significance.
Topic varies each semster.
History of Ireland to 1690. An investigation of Celtic culture and its near destruction by the English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ireland since 1690. A study of Irish history from the Battle of the Boyne to the present. 8th Century A.D. Gilt bronze plaque.