SYLLABUS

For reading assigned for the individual classes please go to Moodle.

Please note that there will be NO CLASS ON FRIDAY 19 February. A make-up session will be offered at the end of the semester.

Feb 19 - NO CLASS

Feb 26 - INTRODUCTION

Mar 4

NATIONAL REVIVAL AND MODERNISM

Douglas Hyde, Patrick Pearse, J. M. Synge

Mar 11 and 18

W. B. YEATS

Apr 1 and 4

MID-CENTURY BACKWATERS

Denis Devlin, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, Austin Clarke, Samuel Beckett

Apr 15 and 22

IRISH LANGUAGE POETRY

Máirtín Ó Direáin, Séan Ó Ríordáin, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

Apr 29 and May 5

LATE MODERNISTS, LATER REVIVALISTS

Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague

May 13

AFTER MODERNISM

Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Sinéad Morrissey